On Fri, Dec 20, 2019 at 7:22 PM Jarek Piórkowski <ja...@piorkowski.ca> wrote:
> On Fri, 20 Dec 2019 at 20:16, Paul Johnson <ba...@ursamundi.org> wrote: > > On Fri, Dec 20, 2019 at 6:57 PM Joseph Eisenberg < > joseph.eisenb...@gmail.com> wrote: > >> > Being able to speak each country's highway lingua franca would make > it a lot easier for OSM to become the Rosetta Stone of maps simply from > ease of classification. > >> > >> That would mean using "jalan=provinsi" instead of "highway=primary" in > >> Indonesia, so any global map service (like opencyclemap.org) would > >> need to interpret all these tags from different languages. If you > >> limit this to just official languages there would be several hundred > >> to translate, but there are over 1500 languages with a written > >> language currently: I don't see why we would limit things to just > >> official languages. > > > > > > I'm not arguing in favor of a change in language for key name. But the > local broadly accepted classification terminology (preferably in English > for consistency sake) for the value. > > Why in English? Bundesstraße is a broadly accepted classification > terminology, so is autostrada. If you want to do things for > consistency sake, there are the accepted OSM-British-English names. > What I'm saying is highway=bundesstraße could be acceptable, but straße=bundestraße wouldn't be. Mostly so way type objects with highway=* are still potentially routable.
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