Today was a day of combo-mapping:
1) Yahoo overlay,
2) Surveying on foot with a camera and paper,
3) and looking from the roof of my house!
At least I managed to get a decent start.
Things will get easier with the GPS logger that I ordered...
P.S:
The names on the street signs here are all in capital letters like this:
ΟΔΟΣ ΑΓΙΩΝ ΠΑΝΤΩΝ
I wonder if it would make sense, to tag them like this:
name=ΟΔΟΣ ΑΓΙΩΝ ΠΑΝΤΩΝ (what is written on the street sign > Easy to recognise!)
name:gr=Οδός Αγίων Πάντων (the correct name written properly)
name:en=Odos Agion Panton (English transliteration)
translation:en=All Saints Road (maybe English translation?? Is there a consensus on this?)
Kaozeadenn
Evezhiadenn a-berzh imroy d'an 21 April 2010 da 19:53
There's a page on multilingual names (osm.wiki/Multilingual_names) and also transliteration codes (osm.wiki/Transliteration_code)
I think the last two are mixed up. They should be:
name:en=All Saints Road (or whatever the translation is)
name:gr_bgn=Odos Agion Panton
I'm just picking BGN as a possible system of transliteration from the wikipedia article http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Romanization_of_Greek
Evezhiadenn a-berzh webrian d'an 22 April 2010 da 01:41
See these sites:
osm.wiki/Japan_tagging#Names
osm.wiki/WikiProject_Laos#Names
Basically what imroy recommends but with name:gr_rm (for romanized) instead of name:gr_bgn
name:gr_rm=Odos Agion Panton
name:en=All Saints Road
Evezhiadenn a-berzh Marc Schütz d'an 22 April 2010 da 13:42
I would not use all capital letters, except where it is really the official writing. That the names are printed in upper-case on street signs is just a representation of the "real" names.
Evezhiadenn a-berzh Zeptomoon d'an 22 April 2010 da 13:58
Thanks for the comments!
I was discussing also a little in the IRC channel. They mostly agree with the above.
I'm starting forming a coherent model in my head. I will write up a summary on the [[Talk:Key:name]] page after tomorrow.
Evezhiadenn a-berzh Dimon d'an 24 June 2010 da 15:20
Gia sac. Mostly I agree with Marc Schütz, no capital letters. When I've started contributing Crete OSM (some years ago, JOSM) I have seen lots of name: with Greec letters, name:en with English letters, name:ru with Russian letters, name:de and others common laguages. I'm agree with any concept, just choose most popular, so now continuing this kind of naming and think that this tagging system have minimum conflicts with others and easy recognisible in software necessaires (bots, renders or file conversion with language filtering-adoptation).
Heratismos apo tin Ag.Nikolaos.