On 06/01/2020 09:45, Joseph Eisenberg wrote:
but it's quite difficult to decide which tag to use in each region
what about … as long as we're discussing relations … a relation could have a node with role `label:xx` where the xx is a language code. it would specify where to put the corresponding name. so for the Baltic Sea, you would have several nodes indicating where to put the several names in the several languages, each next to the corresponding shore.
I like the idea, if I understand Marc Gemis correctly, of having (mostly) nameless maps, with transparencies for each language. but yes someone has to program this.
one reason for mentioning Morocco: it shows how three names is perceived as too many. the impact on South America could be to name it in Spanish and Portuguese (two languages), and by this we would cover more than 99% of the people living there. North America would need Spanish, English and French, so maybe that would be one language too many.
(interesting page, that about "Imperialisme linguistique". the Dutch version of it, very short, mentions Morocco for the other reason I mentioned it myself: the country has experienced French and Arabic cultural imperialism, and is now trying to implement some respect for the majority of their (Amazigh) people. taken to this context, this would be the OSM-people who do not read nor write to this list. mind you, the list is called 'talk', not 'talk:en'.)
Interlingua/Lingua Franca would be a nice compromise, at least for South America and the seas next to Spain, France, and Italy, where more than three languages are recognized and even more spoken, but all are neo-latin. I don't know whether anything like this could apply to the Baltic, or to other seas.
anyhow, leaving implementations aside, I think that a bit more language-culture agnosticism would not harm OSM.
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