OSM has a policy that the base 'name' tag should be the name used on-the-ground locally, i.e. what appears in real life on street signs, building nameplates, an

OSM has a policy that the base 'name' tag should be the name used on-the-ground locally, i.e. what appears in real life on street signs, building nameplates, and so on. Plus some special considerations for multilingual areas [1]. Items can also have additional language-specific tags (name:ja, name:en, etc.), which can in principle be used by renderers to display names in the language preference of the user, e.g. to produce an all-German-label or all-English-label map, to the extent the data is present [2]. [1] http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Multilingual_names http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Multilingual_names [2] http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Map_internationalization http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Map_internationalization