[mkgmap-dev] Country names

Thu Jun 9 19:33:09 BST 2011

On Thu, Jun 09, 2011 at 09:22:36PM +0300, Marko Mäkelä wrote:
>Russia uses alt_name for the "everyday" name and name for the official
>name:
>http://www.openstreetmap.org/browse/relation/60189

I noticed that a few languages use name:* instead of alt_name:* for the 
"everyday" name and do not define the official name at all for Russia.  
Has there been any discussion on this on the tagging lists? I would not 
want to start an edit war.

	Marko