Le 10/02/2017 à 02:31, Yuri Astrakhan a écrit : Well, the third option might be to engage user to contribute with a localization. We might for that propose a specific guide, and advises from professional(/skilled) topographers would be a big plus here I guess. Making automated transliteration suggestion from Russian to French is practicable, especially if "dummy" Cyrillic to roman script (plus possibly some nominative/adjectival suffix) is considered fine. Now if you want to go deeper and transpose the meaning of the toponym (which, surely most locales wouldn't know ever), it's challenge of an other scale. Regarding transilteration from Chinese, expect if it comes with some romanization like pinyin, it seems to do any automatic suggestion (but call for contribution is always possible :). I have no idea, but if you have sources on this topic, I would be interesting in feedback. Well, at least as an option, that might be interesting. More generally, you might like to have something like "Localized name (names used by natives)". The text between parentheses might indeed have several items. In the case of China, you probably at least would like to have the Ideogram and the pinyin as stated by the official government, plus – as far as I know – there are many languages used in China, so you'll probably have names which are more along local usage. Other cases which come to my mind are Amerindian traditional toponyms, and toponyms in France local languages (for exemple, /Strossburi/ and /Strossburch /for Strasbourg), as they are even on the municipality entrance.