Multiple delimited names in the name tag

[Minh_Nguyen (Minh Nguyễn)]

There’s a separate thread to collect feedback on the new proposal. Of note for the participants here, the proposal currently doesn’t address the approach of using a semicolon to delimit multiple names in name=*, which was discussed at length here.

[RFC] Feature Proposal - Add languages: tags for name rendering

There are a few ongoing discussions on the OSM Community forum about the use of the name tag for features in multi-lingual contexts. The problems stem from treating the name tag as the to-be-rendered localized name. Improvements that address the main concerns could be made by giving renderers enough information in the OSM dataset as to how to select appropriate name: tags for rendering in a given region. Two new tags, languages:official and languages:preferred for use on administrative boundar…