On Thu, 14 Oct 2010 20:07:57 Pieren wrote: > On Thu, Oct 14, 2010 at 12:41 PM, Andrew Errington < > > a.erring...@lancaster.ac.uk> wrote: > > Furthermore, the convention that has been adopted is that > > name=* should be the name in Hangul, followed by a space, followed by the > > name in English in parentheses. > > > > So, as I see it, names should be rendered as follows > > This is exactly a good example of "tagging for the renderers". What OSM > needs is a lot of local contributors. And for them, it is much easier to > enter only one tag for the name and this in the local language. Other > conventions are just workarounds for software issues.
Not really. Street signs, roadsigns and other public signage is increasingly being printed in Hangul and English. However, when we get a renderer that can render "name:ko + (name:en)" we can delete all name=* which have been typed in that form and then rename name:ko=* to name=* In the meantime we don't have that, so we have a workaround. The fact that I can make a map in Korea in English is the main reason I became involved in OSM. I can make (and use) a map that is useful to me and the other English-speakers I know. Best wishes, Andrew _______________________________________________ Tagging mailing list Tagging@openstreetmap.org http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/tagging
