In reply to bgo_eiu
Tentatively the Indian government POIs could be tagged with every official language of India (I don't remember the number but it's more than 10). That would require some research, I'm only familiar with the languages spoken in both Pakistan and India

In reply to Harshil Sharma
Yes there are 22, Dogri being one of them (I being a native speaker). The Govt has recognized Devanagri as its official script. But Dogri has its own script too (Dogra Akkhar) which even has a Unicode now and Indian Railways has began its usage by writing on boards across all railway stations in Jammu division of J&K.
So should it be added as a tag?

In reply to bgo_eiu
Looks like there is only 3 uses of name:doi so far, would be good to add more. Could use name:doi-Deva and name:doi-Dogr if you wanted to tag the scripts separately using the ISO codes for them (and document it on the wiki whatever tags you use)

In reply to bgo_eiu
Looks like there is only 3 uses of name:doi so far, would be good to add more. Could use name:doi-Deva and name:doi-Dogr if you wanted to tag the scripts separately using the ISO codes for them (and document it on the wiki whatever tags you use)

In reply to bgo_eiu
Question I have - does anyone here know anything about where and how Asian Highway route shields are posted in India?

In reply to Nikhil VJ
ok. Note that this isn't so much technical as it is political. As in: there will be mappers out there who are equally convinced that the "name" tag must be in the native language of that land and not in english. So this can turn into a tug of war, just FYI. Personally I think the general maps need to be in a common language so that outsiders (who may need the map more) can read it, and then local language version maps should be made available by ____ (the local governments? PPP? Vietnam has done this.) Right now looking at all the local lang labels I see in mid-east etc on OSM, I know for sure it's not viable for me to use OSM if I visit any of those places.

In reply to Nikhil VJ
my vote is always for mapping roads, as in my professional work there's lots of road routing and i really want the businesses in India to stop sending millions to Google each year. (pay me to set up an osm routing engine for u instead lol)

In reply to Heinz Vieth
Yes road mapping is really important. But without place names routing is quite difficult/impossible.
See the last table on https://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Map_internationalization_(India).
Quite poor results. Only in (GJ), KA, KL,RJ there are many local names.
We need to motivate mappers to map roads and village names.

In reply to Sreeram K
Anyone knows if the fb folks are using rapid or josm?

In reply to Heinz Vieth
Most use ID; very activce also JOSM