On 2017-05-05 13:51, Lukas Sommer wrote: > Feature Proposal - RFC - Language information for name > > URL: > https://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Proposed_features/Language_information_for_name > > Definition: Describes the language in which the value name=* is (using > the same code as Multilingual names). > > Feel free to ask questions if things are unclear! You say "This tag is not always necessary" which, as often in OSM, is not really precise. That means that if there is no name=* tag, the region's default languages applies. Alas, OSM seems to hate tagging default values inside its database. Rather they are scattered in many other places and if one changes, all applications have to be updated instead of a transparent OSM map update. See the nice Proposed features/Defaults <https://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Proposed_features/Defaults> that they removed (even though it is used). So, your proposal puts the cart before the horses and default languages should be defined first. If you want to do that, call on my advice on how to do it. Here in Belgium, we have defined the linguistic regions relations. But, owing to that OSM shortcoming, they are of course not used as defaults.
Cheers André.
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