Native name

[lexman]

I'm reporting here a discution we had when creating the dataset (datasets/awesome-data#47)

• The native name for each city would be great
• But is there only one native name ? Think of Anwerpen / Anvers in Belgium or Jaffna / யாழ்ப்பாணம் / යාපනය in Sri Lanka : they have several native names.
• The orignal dataset has a "isPrefered" field wich is not reliable (see Bejing or Sukkothai)
• One way to achieve multiple native names would be to have several columns "native_name1", "native_language1", "native_name2", "native_language2", etc. And fill the columns for each official language of the country of the city. It's not very nice in terme of data conception but it does the job

If anyone has a better idea, or want me to implement this one, please share it here...