[mkgmap-dev] Country names

Thu Jun 9 19:22:36 BST 2011

On Thu, Jun 09, 2011 at 07:39:57PM +0200, WanMil wrote:
>This has the shortcoming that the relation names contains some 
>administrative stuff "Federal Republic of Germany" instead of 
>"Germany".

The relation name could be written something like this:

official_name="Bundesrepublik Deutschland"
official_name:de="Bundesrepublik Deutschland"
official_name:en="Federal Republic of Germany"
official_name:fi="Saksan liittotasavalta"
...
name="Deutschland"
name:de="Deutschland"
name:en="Germany"
name:fi="Saksa"
name:sv="Tyskland"
...

Finland is defined like this, with both official_name and name:
http://www.openstreetmap.org/browse/relation/54224
Russia uses alt_name for the "everyday" name and name for the official 
name:
http://www.openstreetmap.org/browse/relation/60189

Best regards,

	Marko