Name tag guideline update

[Minh_Nguyen (Minh Nguyễn)]

@NeatNit

While we’re at it, Jerusalem is definitely wrong: name=ירושלים | القدس. I know it’s a political issue, but we can’t have two languages in the name tag… Can we? (IMO this question is of big enough concern to raise in a global forum, not just Israel)

It’s very common for multilingual areas, though exactly how to accommodate, delimit, and display the names is a source of ongoing controversy:

Multiple delimited names in the name tag

Recently there has been discussion in #communities:us and #communities:de about the practice of putting multiple names in the name tag. I’m starting a topic here because the scope of discussion expanded fairly quickly. Original local topics: Slash-separated Native American names Wie sollte man mit der Zweisprachigkeit (u.a. Straßennamen) in der Lausitz umgehen?

[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…