> it *is* worth discussing if (or why) the "name" tag on a body of water bordered by a number of countries neither of which has English as an official language, should contain the English name.
I agree. Unfortunately the message has been confused by the poor presentation. It is quite reasonable to question the use of English in the `name=` tag for the Baltic Sea. It would be reasonable to stop using the name= tag for oceans, continents and international seas, if we can develop a tag which would specify which of the `name:<language code>=` tags should be treated as the primary ones. This would make it more feasible to design a rendering for the Baltic Sea, the Mediterranean, and other seas surrounding by a large number of language areas. For the oceans and continents there may not be much use in a name tag, since these labels only make sense on a global map. A map designer or user can pick the language in that case. - Joseph Eisenberg On 2/24/20, Martin Koppenhoefer <[email protected]> wrote: > > > sent from a phone > >> On 24. Feb 2020, at 11:44, Frederik Ramm <[email protected]> wrote: >> >> We're not there yet though; we're kind of shouting down Tomek because >> he's aggressively questioning the status quo, but we haven yet managed >> to come up with a rule that would fortify the status quo. > > > > there has been mention of utility. From statistical research it would seem > that English is the language which has most people able to understand it > (shortly before Chinese, but with significantly more usage as a second > language). From a practical point of view, there are good arguments to fall > back to English. This could change in the future, but it would be a long > way. > Despite the global statistics, it could well be that regionally, other > languages would be more useful or “natural” than English, even if that > language isn’t the mother tongue of the majority of residents in the > neighboring countries (e.g. Spanish, Arabic, Portuguese, Mandarin, Russian > ...) > > Cheers Martin > > > _______________________________________________ > talk mailing list > [email protected] > https://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk > _______________________________________________ talk mailing list [email protected] https://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk
