BTW, do you have an opinion about the subject of this thread? Should the tag be default:language=* rather than language:default=*?
It will be some work to edit the proposal to change the order of the tag, but I'll be happy to do it if a few more people agree. On Tue, Oct 2, 2018 at 7:02 PM Martin Koppenhoefer <dieterdre...@gmail.com> wrote: > > > Am Di., 2. Okt. 2018 um 11:40 Uhr schrieb Joseph Eisenberg < > joseph.eisenb...@gmail.com>: > >> If it’s in Germany, it would be perfectly fine to use name:de=Spazio >> Italian Bistrot, if most local people will be pronouncing it like a German >> name. But it might make the most sense to just use name=* or brand=* >> without attempting to pick a language. >> > > > indeed, pronounciation is key for me, too. A navigation app which names > this place should ideally pronounce it "correctly" as would a local > (someone in the language that is set in the app) do. My guess is that most > Germans would pronounce "spazio" with a German accent but would recognize > it as an Italian word and German being here similar in pronounciation to > Italian, would be easily understandable for an Italian. Most Germans would > probably try to pronounce "Italian" as English (63% declared to be able to > speak English) and all but the most educationally challenged would > pronounce "Bistrot" in French (which is the common pronounciation in German > as well). > > Cheers, > Martin > > > _______________________________________________ > Tagging mailing list > Tagging@openstreetmap.org > https://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/tagging >
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