[Maps-l] Tag official_name ? (was Multilingual Country-List)

[Peter Körner]

Pieren schrieb:
> On Thu, Aug 13, 2009 at 3:08 AM, andrzej zaborowski<balrogg at gmail.com> wrote:
>> The instructions at the top of the pages could also mention the
>> official_name:* tags - I don't know if these are approved in any way
>> but I found they were on some of the nodes and I thought it was a good
>> idea to propagate these too where the full name differs from the
>> normal name the country is known by (which could otherwise be placed
>> in loc_name, but it should probably be the one displayed by default)
> 
> What is this mess about official_name, name and loc_name ?
> 
> Is someone shifting what was earlier name/loc_name to something new
> like official_name/name ?
> Where is it discussed/described on this ML or the wiki ?
> 
> Pieren


I don't know anything about official_name or loc_name. The origin of 
this tool was the local-aware rendering at 
http://cassini.toolserver.org/tile-browse/, which is based only on the 
name:*-tags and (if not present) on the name-tag.

Peter