[Maps-l] [OSM-talk] Announcemen: Multilingual Country-List

[Peter Körner]

Arlindo Pereira schrieb:
> I need some advice: I'm currently translating the names to Portuguese,
> and for some countries the portuguese name differ from the brazilian
> portuguese (which I speak) to the european portuguese. So, should I
> tag, "official_/name:pt=one of the forms" or
> "official_/name:pt=brazilian portuguese name; european portuguese
> name"? Or maybe official_/name:pt_PT and official_/name:pt_BR?
> 
> Cheers,

The list of languages presented is derived from the languages that their 
own wikipedia [1], because that's the most prominent place those 
localized maps will be visible. If you're unsure I'd suggest to use the 
name of the corresponding article in the wikipedia for the language-code 
on the list.

Despite of that feel free to add another tag with the other name. Please 
take a look at [2] and check if there's a language-code for it. Please 
consider also asking at talk-pt [3], although there's not much traffic..

Peter

[1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Special:SiteMatrix
[2] http://www.loc.gov/standards/iso639-2/php/code_list.php
[3] http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk-pt