Hello fellow mappers,
Occasionally, I run into data in multiple languages. Most of the time, just the country is in a different language. Is there a policy around this? I would think all data should be in the local language, but there might be options to provide translations into the requestor’s locale. My example below shows a US based address in a country named…
Vereinigte Staaten von Amerika. My app does some validation and declares the entry invalid due to country value.
Any suggestions to handle this? Should we change Vereinigte Staaten von Amerika to America or United States? It’s not possible to update our geocoder to validate against all language permutations.
ERROR: invalid country - Vereinigte Staaten von Amerika
{
“place_id”: 29241589,
“licence”: “Data © OpenStreetMap contributors, ODbL 1.0. OpenStreetMap”,
“osm_type”: “node”,
“osm_id”: 2735395741,
“boundingbox”: [
“39.7398166”,
“39.7399166”,
“-104.9691167”,
“-104.9690167”
],
“lat”: “39.7398666”,
“lon”: “-104.9690667”,
“display_name”: “Blush & Blu, 1526, East Colfax Avenue, Cheesman Park, City and County of Denver, Colorado, 80218, Vereinigte Staaten von Amerika”,
“place_rank”: 30,
“category”: “amenity”,
“type”: “bar”,
“importance”: 0,
“address”: {
“amenity”: “Blush & Blu”,
“house_number”: “1526”,
“road”: “East Colfax Avenue”,
“neighbourhood”: “Cheesman Park”,
“city”: “City and County of Denver”,
“state”: “Colorado”,
“postcode”: “80218”,
“country”: “Vereinigte Staaten von Amerika”,
“country_code”: “us”
},
“extratags”: {
“phone”: " 1-303-484-8548",
“website”: “http://blushbludenver.com/”,
“drink:beer”: “yes”,
“drink:wine”: “yes”,
“wheelchair”: “yes”,
“drink:liquor”: “yes”,
“opening_hours”: “Sa,Su 11:00-02:00; Mo,Tu 16:00-02:00; We 14:00-02:00; Th,Fr 12:00-02:00”
}
}
Thanks!
JMelvin