language: local convention

[wipfli]

Congrats on releasing the first insights into the Overture data schema!

I saw that some of the examples use a language: local tag. Can you share some more details on this?

Questions which came to my mind are:

• How do you know the language which local refers to? (Can be important in text rendering e.g. for chinese japanese korean CJK characters)
• How do you handle the case where a place is bilingual or multilingual? E.g. the name of Biel/Bienne in Switzerland is German and French: https://www.openstreetmap.org/relation/1682380

[Cj-Malone]

I imagine the answer will be: it's the same as OSM. So 1. No real solution, 2. Depends on the supplier.

(I'm not associated with Overture)

[TristanDiet-TomTom]

'Local' is used if we don't get a language in a source, it is a version of 'undetermined'. We want to have as little as possible 'Local' in data. We do our best to clean up 'local' names as good as we can.
More information on the language values can be found on:

schema/schema/defs.yaml

Line 128 in 874ca44

Describes the language, script and other variants used to describe

[jenningsanderson]

We've updated the names schema (https://docs.overturemaps.org/guides/feature-model/names/) since this issue was opened.