This Nominatim page shows the Spanish Pensilvania, instead of Pennsylvania. In case my Accept-Language is relevant, I have multiple English languages ("en-US", "en", "eng", and more), then eventually "es-es" and "es" lower in the list. EDIT: When I use curl with no Accept-Language headers, it displays the English name. Looking at the relation looks like the issue is that My request explicitly allows en (preferred, but there is no name:en) and es (allowed, and there is name:es, but less preferred). What's the best way to address this (let me know if I should ask this follow-up separately)? Should name:en be added even though the local language is English? asked 15 Jul '12, 05:24  mattflaschen edited 03 Jun '13, 02:07  aseerel4c26 ♦ |
2 Answers:
The problem is indeed with the missing name:en tag. Nominatim doesn't know that the name tag in the US should default to English. That is a bug in Nominatim not with your tagging. It is common practice in OSM to leave out the localized name tag (i.e. Nominatim will update to a new version in a few weeks where the handling of local languages has been improved. So, just ignore the problem for a while and it will hopefully go away by itself. answered 16 Jul '12, 09:22  lonvia |
Dear Mattflaschen, I should use the original name, but I like the different lanquages. This platform however has accepted English as standard for all. Thats all and Pennsylvania should it be. answered 15 Jul '12, 16:00  Hendrikklaas |
hopefully that'll also fix the US state name showing up in Japanese when you search for cities!