On Wednesday 26 September 2018, Frederik Ramm wrote: > > Isn't it so that the new system adds zero usefulness to countries or > areas which have and use just one language, but is useful in regions > that have more than one? Hence, why roll it out in, say, most parts > of Germany *at all*, and just stick to parts where several languages > are used?
Also in Germany we have features with no German name (most notably probably in regions with significant minority languages but also for example some English shop names, Italian restaurant names etc.) and features which have both a German and a different language name both in active use locally (so the name tag would contain a combination of both). Examples: https://www.openstreetmap.org/node/240045727 https://www.openstreetmap.org/way/135310439 https://www.openstreetmap.org/node/3903774975 https://www.openstreetmap.org/way/90431650 The whole point of a concept like the one proposed here is to have a unified system that transparently covers all cases - both in terms of the geographic and cultural reality and in terms of use cases of the data. Special casing countries which supposedly don't need this kind of defeats the whole purpose. -- Christoph Hormann http://www.imagico.de/ _______________________________________________ Tagging mailing list Tagging@openstreetmap.org https://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/tagging
