On 07.02.20 20:22, Yuri Astrakhan wrote:
(e.g. two fairly large groups of people could refer to the same
place/object by different names). ... the map should be able to
reflect difference of opinions to some "reasonable" degree (an
intentionally vague term).
One useful example of that is a city in the north west of the island of
Ireland, called (in English) either Derry or Londonderry. Everyone
agrees on the Irish name (`name:ga`) (Doire). OSM's
multilingual tagging scheme, but for dialects, are used to differentiate
the Hiberno-English (en_IE) name (Derry) from the
British-English (en_GB) term (Londonderry). The `name`
tag uses the commonly used compromise. That approach could work for
other areas.
RFC 1766 (for IETF language tags) appears to allow quite detailed
specification of languages & areas, and could be useful.
https://www.openstreetmap.org/node/267762522
https://tools.ietf.org/html/rfc1766
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IETF_language_tag
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