You can also test for the presence of "name:de" in "name", rather than just equality, so that if name contains (say) French/German/Flemish components, then you use that rather than making your own name (name:de) combination.
Richard On Thu, Oct 14, 2010 at 2:51 PM, Peter Körner <osm-li...@mazdermind.de> wrote: > Am 14.10.2010 15:47, schrieb Craig Wallace: >> >> On 14/10/2010 14:36, Andrew Errington wrote: >> >>> 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=* >> >> No, this would not be helpful. Because then how do you know what >> language the "name" tag is in? >> More useful to leave the "name:ko" tag as it is. Though you could copy >> (not rename) the name:ko tag to the name tag if you want. > > To render a German map there are two possibilities: > 1. render "name:de" if it exists, "name" otherwise > 2. render "name" if its identical to "name:de", "name (name:de)" otherwise > > "name" does hereby refer to the local name ((how do the people that live > there call their country). > > This works for all the places that have only one local name. 1. is waht we > currently render on the TS and it would be easy to set up 2., but it would > not look nice because the "name" tag sometimes already contains brackets. > > Peter > > _______________________________________________ > Tagging mailing list > Tagging@openstreetmap.org > http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/tagging > _______________________________________________ Tagging mailing list Tagging@openstreetmap.org http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/tagging
