There are a few ongoing discussions on the OSM Community forum about the
use of the `name` tag for features in multi-lingual contexts. The
problems stem from treating the `name` tag as the to-be-rendered
localized name.
Improvements that address the main concerns could be made by giving
renderers enough information in the OSM dataset as to how to select
appropriate `name:` tags for rendering in a given region.
Two new tags, `languages:official` and `languages:preferred` for use on
administrative boundaries are proposed to do just that. A detailed
description of the problem and how these tags could address the issues
are found on the OSM wiki here:
https://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Proposal:Add_languages:_tags_for_name_rendering
Please discuss this proposal on its Wiki Talk page.
A corresponding topic on the OSM forum can also be found here:
https://community.openstreetmap.org/t/rfc-feature-proposal-add-languages-tags-for-name-rendering/121558
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Aaron Seigo
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