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Remember default language for “Whats the name of this place” #4257
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Where you are editing? In India? (I am asking, as this functionality is location dependent) |
Yes |
In which state are you mapping? |
I map throughout India, mostly in new Delhi, rajasthan |
So the feature request is to
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Had checked countrymetadata repo, new Delhi & Rajasthan has hindi as first suggestion (https://github.com/streetcomplete/countrymetadata/blob/master/data/officialLanguages.yml#L178) |
Yes this sounds good to me. |
Also i think, my [2] idea can also be implemented side-by-side ? Anything on that ? |
Not sure if this is ideal because then there is room for edge cases like "only part of the last-selected" languages are available for selection in whatever state one is now |
Yeah, this is problematic. One last thing, can we do something to make it a bit easier to type in any language ? Like in [2] idea leave the part of 'ranking language' but at least we can consider decreasing the need to press '+' icon each time we need to change language ? Suppose in case of new Delhi, there are 2 languages (as per our metadata) 'en' & 'hi'. With 'hi' as first (blank space will be visible), but for 'en' we need to press '+' or change by toggling (hi->en). But rather than showing '+' we can directly show both blank places ? |
People might be confused and think they need to fill in both(/all) languages, e.g. translate the English sign into Hindi etc. Also, for some countries, the list of official languages is quite long. In my experience, shop signs are usually in just one language. |
Yeah, confusion will be there. Currently only visible option is changing order of language, but it may be controversial ? And about shop signs, its not the case in India. Its common to see sign board in either local language or English sometimes both. Btw, can we stick with #4257 (comment) ? |
Yes, sure, that'd be the plan. |
According to the wiki, the Indian mapping community’s convention is to put English in |
Sorry, i have no prior knowledge regarding this, i think @westnordost can answer this. |
Use case
While on survey, incase of hurry if you forget to change language (Local->English) and the language is set to 'local' rather than 'English' by default (i prefer to write answer in english) then it may create problem in naming of places due to wrong language. Tapping language change button is frustrating most of the time.
Proposed Solution
The best way to mitigate this problem is that the app should remember the most recently used/answered language for "whats name of this place quest", and giving that language 1st preference this will decrease the need to press '+' button, hence fixing this issue.
Else one more suggestion is that to show both the languages at same time rather than '+' icon, here also the preference to first line for language can be given to most recently used/answered langauge:
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