M?rtin Koppenhoefer <dieterdre...@gmail.com> wrote: > > And AFAIK it's not a good idea to translate every value like you do it here. > > The translations/languages should only apply to names, not on "classes". > > If your Application wants to use different languages than English, it should > > use a dictionary for that at client side. > > > While this might be true in this case or not (don't speak Swedish) > there are certainly cases in the world where English is missing a > term. So as exception putting a tag in a foreign language (and marking > it as foreign) is not a bad idea.
Yes you're right there is some regional exception for specific things. But the general rule is to use only one tag class for a definied thing. tag class has not to be translated, but specific tag class name should not be always in english for some regional specific features. -- Pierre-Alain Dorange _______________________________________________ Tagging mailing list Tagging@openstreetmap.org http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/tagging
