That's 3 'votes' for using wikidata for the purpose. use dedication:wikidata=Q... though,
possibly together with dedication:lc=.... where lc is the 2 or 3 letter language code for the local language(s). Jo 2015-01-26 17:19 GMT+01:00 Thorsten Alge <li...@thorsten-alge.de>: > > On 2015-01-26 01:39, Friedrich Volkmann wrote: > > On 25.01.2015 23:30, Eugene Alvin Villar wrote: > >> On 1/26/15, Lukas Sommer <sommer...@gmail.com> wrote: > >>> And I think it makes sense to define explicitly some things in the > >>> documentation. Things like > >>> – use always (or use never) “Saint”: “Saint Paul” vs “Paul”. > > That's a good point. In German, there are name variations for many > saints, > > e.g. Nepomuk = Johannes Nepomuk. There are name variations even for the > word > > "saint": "Sankt", "St.", "Heiliger", "Hl.", none. > > > > But AFAIK the official dedication for a given church is always a fixed > > version of the name. Of course that breaks comparability. > > > > > Maybe use the Wikidata-ID instead? patron_saint:wikidata=Qxxxx. If you > need the names in whatever language you want you can get it from > wikidata in a second step. > > _______________________________________________ > Tagging mailing list > Tagging@openstreetmap.org > https://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/tagging >
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