On Thu, 14 Oct 2010 21:53:19 Richard Welty wrote: > On 10/14/10 7:57 AM, Andrew Errington wrote: > > it's a hack, it happens to work for you, and that's ok. > > but it's not good practice in terms of making a generally usable > database. it causes some existing renderers to do something you > like, but may cause headaches for other renderers that need to > break the names out. that's where some of us have a problem with > the approach.
I wholeheartedly agree with you, however it wasn't my idea and it was like that when I got here. I recognised it as a problem from the start, but I wasn't about to tell everyone 'ur doing it wrong' until a) I knew what I was doing b) There was a solution So, 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=* (Um, and then change the renderer to render "name + (name:en)", of course) In fact, I would go so far to say that we *can* do it now, and that we should start a project to introduce this function into the renderer and remove the previously hacked name=* tags in the database. In Korea that would not be a problem, as it's not really comprehensively mapped yet. Japan has a *lot* of data (so probably a lot of contributors and users that would need to be consulted/informed). There are other countries that also use this "local name (English name)" form for name=* So, how do I start such a process? Best wishes, Andrew _______________________________________________ Tagging mailing list Tagging@openstreetmap.org http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/tagging
