Re: [OSM-talk] [Tagging] nomoj de internaciaj objektoj / nazwy obiektów międzynarodowych / names of international objects

2020-01-06 Thread Maarten Deen

On 2020-01-07 08:27, Mateusz Konieczny wrote:

6 Jan 2020, 16:35 by dieterdre...@gmail.com:


sent from a phone

On 6. Jan 2020, at 07:29, Maarten Deen  wrote:

Baltic Sea to be the "Baltic Sea" or for South America to be "South

America" - this is an example of English imperialism.

This "imperialism" idea of yours is just your idea. It is not
something that is widely felt.


regarding imperialism, I think it’s hard to reject the reasoning
that English is in widespread use because of imperialism.

Yes, but using it for a pragmatic reasons
for an international communication is
usually not imperialism.


I am also not a fan of blaming history for the current situation and 
taking the long road because you don't like that history.
It would mean that I couldn't speak dutch with my Surinam friends just 
because 400 years ago the ideas of how we should conduct ourselves were 
different.


That is just counterproductive.

Regards,
Maarten

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Re: [OSM-talk] [Tagging] nomoj de internaciaj objektoj / nazwy obiektów międzynarodowych / names of international objects

2020-01-06 Thread Mateusz Konieczny
6 Jan 2020, 16:35 by dieterdre...@gmail.com:

>
>
> sent from a phone
>
>> On 6. Jan 2020, at 07:29, Maarten Deen  wrote:
>>
>>> Baltic Sea to be the "Baltic Sea" or for South America to be "South
>>> America" - this is an example of English imperialism.
>>>
>>
>> This "imperialism" idea of yours is just your idea. It is not something that 
>> is widely felt.
>>
>
>
>
> regarding imperialism, I think it’s hard to reject the reasoning that English 
> is in widespread use because of imperialism. 
>
Yes, but using it for a pragmatic reasons
for an international communication is
usually not imperialism.
I can try to communicate with group of  people
from different countries in Polish,
Latin, Sindarin or Esperanto.
But except rare cases using English is likely
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Re: [OSM-talk] [Tagging] nomoj de internaciaj objektoj / nazwy obiektów międzynarodowych / names of international objects

2020-01-06 Thread Mario Frasca

On 06/01/2020 09:45, Joseph Eisenberg wrote:

but it's quite difficult to decide which
tag to use in each region


what about … as long as we're discussing relations … a relation could 
have a node with role `label:xx` where the xx is a language code.  it 
would specify where to put the corresponding name.  so for the Baltic 
Sea, you would have several nodes indicating where to put the several 
names in the several languages, each next to the corresponding shore.


I like the idea, if I understand Marc Gemis correctly, of having 
(mostly) nameless maps, with transparencies for each language. but yes 
someone has to program this.


one reason for mentioning Morocco: it shows how three names is perceived 
as too many.  the impact on South America could be to name it in Spanish 
and Portuguese (two languages), and by this we would cover more than 99% 
of the people living there.  North America would need Spanish, English 
and French, so maybe that would be one language too many.


(interesting page, that about "Imperialisme linguistique".  the Dutch 
version of it, very short, mentions Morocco for the other reason I 
mentioned it myself: the country has experienced French and Arabic 
cultural imperialism, and is now trying to implement some respect for 
the majority of their (Amazigh) people.  taken to this context, this 
would be the OSM-people who do not read nor write to this list.  mind 
you, the list is called 'talk', not 'talk:en'.)


Interlingua/Lingua Franca would be a nice compromise, at least for South 
America and the seas next to Spain, France, and Italy, where more than 
three languages are recognized and even more spoken, but all are 
neo-latin.  I don't know whether anything like this could apply to the 
Baltic, or to other seas.


anyhow, leaving implementations aside, I think that a bit more 
language-culture agnosticism would not harm OSM.


MF


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Re: [OSM-talk] JOSM: hover-Coordinate by easy click into clipboard?

2020-01-06 Thread Wayne Emerson, Jr. via talk
I don't know if JOSM can do that, but in the iD editor you can press 
Ctrl-Shift-M to open the Measurement box, then place a node where you 
need coordinates. Click on the node, then select the coordinate text in 
the Measurement box and press Ctrl-C.


On 1/6/2020 8:39 PM, tshrub wrote:

hi,

in JOSM's status bar the mouse position is constantly running as a 
coordinate. Is there any easy way to get it, may be by keyboard into 
the clipboard?
I want to edit GPS data from, or better: add GPS-data to trackless 
photos - I want to place them like this with JOSM' sat-pictures.


bella saluti


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2020-01-06 Thread tshrub

hi,

in JOSM's status bar the mouse position is constantly running as a 
coordinate. Is there any easy way to get it, may be by keyboard into the 
clipboard?
I want to edit GPS data from, or better: add GPS-data to trackless 
photos - I want to place them like this with JOSM' sat-pictures.


bella saluti


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Re: [OSM-talk] [Tagging] nomoj de internaciaj objektoj / nazwy obiektów międzynarodowych / names of international objects

2020-01-06 Thread Martin Koppenhoefer
Am Mo., 6. Jan. 2020 um 18:39 Uhr schrieb marc marc <
marc_marc_...@hotmail.com>:

> Le 06.01.20 à 16:35, Martin Koppenhoefer a écrit :
> > in OpenStreetMap we’re trying to represent the current state of things
>
> I agree with that.
>
> > English using it in international context as a fallback.
>
> yes as a fallback, not as a rule "international -> name=name:en"
>


agreed.



> but if a lake is in a multi-lingual area, if a country has several
> official languages, if a sea is bordered by countries which together
> have a very small number of names (2 or 3 in the case of the Baltic Sea)
> or even a name with a large majority, if a continent has a majority
> language, there is no obligation to use English as a fallback:
>


agreed. IMHO, if there are only up to 3 languages used by the neighbouring
areas of an international feature, we could put all of them, but returning
to the example of the Baltic Sea, there are more than 2 or 3 languages
involved though, there's Danish, Estonian, Finnish, German, Latvian,
Lithuanian, Polish, Russian, Swedish, and putting all of them would
probably not be desirable. Putting only name:language tags and keep "name"
void would seem the best option, although it would lead to no name in
current OSM-Carto and similar styles.



> if the local community around the lake decides to have a name other
> than English, if a country have a multilingual name, if the community
> of the countries around the Baltic Sea decides to use the most used
> name or a combination of the 3 most common, if a local majority of
> a continent decide to use Portuguese/Spanish or any other language that
> better represents the name as used there, I see no reason for this not
> to happen.
>


agreed, if they all agree, why not.




> but this must be done in a transparent way, (a message on the forum with
> announcements in the national lists?) and then documented on the
> multilingual names page, and not a mecanical edit because a contributor
> wants such a language.
>


and there's always the possibility that at some point someone comes and
challenges the old agreement, so that the whole thing will have to be
discussed again.


>
> Once the language of the name tag is modified, I see no reason why
> the wikipedia language could not be modified in the same language
> as the name if that wikipedia page exists and is not a stub.
>


I do not understand what wikipedia has to do with it. Wikipedia tags are
about articles, its not a given that there will be a wikipedia article with
the same scope in the languages that are relevant. Generally we are
assuming that a wikipedia article reference stands for all languages that
are interlinked within wikipedia (although the mapper will only have
checked one language, the one she has tagged).
Wikipedia is not a dictionary, its structure follows the requirements of an
encyclopedia. Wikidata is not a 1:1 replacement either (particularly as you
can only have one wikipedia article per wikidata entity, and if there are 2
or more WP articles for a given language dealing with different aspects of
a specific thing, it might be possible to sort it out via additional
wikidata objects and relations, but it's not where they currently are,
given all the existing relations of wikipedia articles (in different
languages) to wikidata objects, everytime you add a meta level wikidata
object ("container", "group", "part", etc. example terms maybe not how they
are actually called), you would have to have knowledge about all these
languages in order to reassign them correctly (because if you look at
languages other than English and maybe some other "big" WP languages,
things are still quite often quite bad (personal experience from looking up
things in English, German, Italian, French).

Cheers
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Re: [OSM-talk] [Tagging] nomoj de internaciaj objektoj / nazwy obiektów międzynarodowych / names of international objects

2020-01-06 Thread marc marc
@Martin
> You mentioned the cities in Morocco
> https://www.openstreetmap.org/node/288704798
> The only difference is that the Baltic Sea involves a couple more languages.

no the main difference is :
Morocco local rules about name <> one mapper rule about the world
talking and (trying to) building a new global rule is fine.
having a global rule per contributor only produce edit wars.
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Re: [OSM-talk] [Tagging] nomoj de internaciaj objektoj / nazwy obiektów międzynarodowych / names of international objects

2020-01-06 Thread marc marc
Le 06.01.20 à 16:35, Martin Koppenhoefer a écrit :
> in OpenStreetMap we’re trying to represent the current state of things

I agree with that.

> English using it in international context as a fallback.

yes as a fallback, not as a rule "international -> name=name:en"
but if a lake is in a multi-lingual area, if a country has several
official languages, if a sea is bordered by countries which together
have a very small number of names (2 or 3 in the case of the Baltic Sea)
or even a name with a large majority, if a continent has a majority
language, there is no obligation to use English as a fallback:

if the local community around the lake decides to have a name other
than English, if a country have a multilingual name, if the community
of the countries around the Baltic Sea decides to use the most used
name or a combination of the 3 most common, if a local majority of
a continent decide to use Portuguese/Spanish or any other language that
better represents the name as used there, I see no reason for this not
to happen.
but this must be done in a transparent way, (a message on the forum with
announcements in the national lists?) and then documented on the
multilingual names page, and not a mecanical edit because a contributor
wants such a language.

Once the language of the name tag is modified, I see no reason why
the wikipedia language could not be modified in the same language
as the name if that wikipedia page exists and is not a stub.
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Re: [OSM-talk] [Tagging] nomoj de internaciaj objektoj / nazwy obiektów międzynarodowych / names of international objects

2020-01-06 Thread Martin Koppenhoefer


sent from a phone

> On 6. Jan 2020, at 07:29, Maarten Deen  wrote:
> 
>> Baltic Sea to be the "Baltic Sea" or for South America to be "South
>> America" - this is an example of English imperialism.
> 
> This "imperialism" idea of yours is just your idea. It is not something that 
> is widely felt.



regarding imperialism, I think it’s hard to reject the reasoning that English 
is in widespread use because of imperialism. We’re all used to it (at least in 
the western world) and internet and the tech economy have further diffused its 
use, so currently it is the defacto standard for most international contexts 
(in other regions and for some specific context it may be Russian or Chinese, 
Spanish, French etc. all mostly because of imperialism). 

Not sure this has to be discussed, in OpenStreetMap we’re trying to represent 
the current state of things, rather than trying to campaign for a state we 
would prefer (with the exception of Crimea, which is this, an exception, simply 
because last year the majority of the 5 people that made up the board wasn’t 
interested in seeing a bigger picture or striving for consistency). English is 
(shortly before Chinese) the language which most people in the world are able 
to understand, so there is good reason for using it in international context as 
a fallback. As OpenStreetMap is not popular in China (AFAIK it’s even forbidden 
to use it), the logical alternative IMHO isn’t relevant for our context. 
Esperanto, which you personally seem to prefer, and which is around for 133 
years, is only understood by, with most favorable estimates, 2 Million people 
(compared to billions for English) and while remaining susceptible for 
criticism of eurocentrism similar to English and not being  “neutral” in any 
way, it is completely artificial so that the “names” in Esperanto are used by 
nobody. Choosing Esperanto would be a loose-loose situation, from my point of 
view.

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Re: [OSM-talk] [Tagging] nomoj de internaciaj objektoj / nazwy obiektów międzynarodowych / names of international objects

2020-01-06 Thread Mateusz Konieczny
6 Jan 2020, 14:35 by marc.ge...@gmail.com:

> So isn't the only conclusion that you can make that pre-rendered tiles
> fail as soon as one needs to serve a multi-language audience?
>
To be more specific - it fails in regions with multiple languages
and once someone leaves her/his language area.

> Wouldn't the best technical solution be vector tiles (or another
> technology) and let the end-user choose in which language the names
> are displayed?
>
Yes, though vector tiles have some other issues 
(for example geometry distortions).

Also, someone needs to implement this.

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Re: [OSM-talk] [Tagging] nomoj de internaciaj objektoj / nazwy obiektów międzynarodowych / names of international objects

2020-01-06 Thread Joseph Eisenberg
> ... the osm.org styles base themselves on the “name” tag to determine the 
> default style? Or is this that the way the styles are currently defined do 
> not enable the definition of heuristics to pick the best “name:*” tag if the 
> “name” tag itself is absent? I really don’t know the styling part of OSM 
> renderrers, but it seems to be crucial in this discussion: can you elaborate 
> on this?

The "Standard" map layer on openstreetmap.org is in the
Openstreetmap-carto style, the details of which are open source at
https://github.com/gravitystorm/openstreetmap-carto/ - most features,
including bays, straits, lakes and other large natural features, have
a text lable displaed based on the "name=*" tag. This is also common
for some other styles which intend to serve the whole globe, since the
"name=" tag should include the common local name, in whatever language
or langauges the local mappers have chosen as the local standard.

In theory we could produce these name labels from tags like
"name:de=*" in Germany and "name:de=" + "name:fr=*" + "name:nl=*" in
the various parts of Belgium, but it's quite difficult to decide which
tag to use in each region.

There is currently no agreed-upon way to determine the "default"
language of a place on land. I attempted a proposal for this a year
ago, but it was not accepted (See issues at
https://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Proposed_features/Default_Language_Format).
Before that, two similar proposals were also rejected, so currently
there is no information in our database about what name:
tags are used locally.

As far as I know there is no technically simple way to solve this
problem without picking a default language for a global map. The
current solution, which lets local mappers manually pick the "name="
for each feature, is not perfect, but it is better than guessing which
language to render for each region. While I am still in favor of a
solution that adds some sort of "default language and script" tag for
each region, it does not seem that there is enough support for that
idea to happen, so for now we need to have name=* tags for things that
are going to be rendered on global maps.

(Note that Openstreetmap-carto does not render the names of oceans,
continents and seas, but does render the names of some large bays and
straits and islands which are relevant to this discussion)

Joseph Eisenberg
(One of the maintainers of Openstreetmap-carto, mapper in Indonesia)

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Re: [OSM-talk] [Tagging] nomoj de internaciaj objektoj / nazwy obiektów międzynarodowych / names of international objects

2020-01-06 Thread Martin Constantino–Bodin

Hi everyone ☺
OK, it seems that the discussions are going wild again in this new year. 
So let’s keep feelings aside and try to answer with arguments instead ☺ 
Thanks everyone who does that, you are too many to thank individually ☺


@Mario: I’ve seen a lot of people saying that we shouldn’t remove the 
“name” tag (and because it already led to a misunderstanding, let’s be 
precise: I mean the tag whose name is exactly “name”, so we keep the 
“name:en”, “name:UN:en”, etc., and I only mean that for places like 
oceans and Antartica), but I haven’t seen any argument for this. Can you 
elaborate on this?


The reason why I believe the “name” tag should not be placed in such 
place is semantic: there is no best local name, so let’s not put any. 
This then enables any renderrer to default to a language of their choice 
(or to check for other, possibly more adequate tags, like “name:UN:*”). 
If you put a “name” tag here, I can’t do that. I’ve been suggesting to 
create a renderrer that just uses “name:eo” if present… just to be told 
right away that this is not a good solution as it would basically 
chooses the Esperanto name for everything instead of just these places 
where there is no default language. I think that having an empty “name” 
tag or not having a “name” tag would be a nice indication that there is 
not best “name” tag, and leave each renderrer use their heuristics (or 
just display no name).


You mentioned the cities in Morocco. This is a cool example ☺ So for 
instance there is this node: 
https://www.openstreetmap.org/node/288704798 (I’ve taken it randomly: I 
really don’t know this region) It seems to be in a very similar 
situation than the Baltic Sea we discussed before 
https://www.openstreetmap.org/node/305640277 So if we can do it in 
Morocco, would it make sense to do it in the Baltic Sea? (That was 
basically what this changeset suggested: 
https://www.openstreetmap.org/changeset/78171743 just that this 
changeset wasn’t done with the permission of the community.) I like how 
it renders with the new line between each name ☺ The only difference is 
that the Baltic Sea involves a couple more languages. Any thoughts about 
this?


@Marc: You seem to understand the issue better than me, but I didn’t 
understand your answer. From what you said, the osm.org styles base 
themselves on the “name” tag to determine the default style? Or is this 
that the way the styles are currently defined do not enable the 
definition of heuristics to pick the best “name:*” tag if the “name” tag 
itself is absent? I really don’t know the styling part of OSM 
renderrers, but it seems to be crucial in this discussion: can you 
elaborate on this? This would really help ☺


Thanks in advance! ☺

(Here follows the second part, more clumsy and probably less important 
part of my message ☺)


Just to argument against some opinions that have been raised there which 
made my right eyebrow raised by two centimeters:
— Yes, linguistic imperialism is a thing: 
https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Imp%C3%A9rialisme_linguistique#Les_facettes_de_l'imp%C3%A9rialisme_linguistique_dans_les_grandes_r%C3%A9gions_du_monde 
The English Wikipedia for this notion is quite poor, so I’m putting the 
French one. Interestingly enough its discussion page is going as wild as 
this very thread ☺
— There have been a German-only message three days ago, and it didn’t 
yield to any frenzy, yet, in this thread, people seems to really don’t 
like multilanguage posts. The rules of this mailing list are not shown 
when subscribing, so it is normal that not everyone knows about them. So 
let’s be calm about it. (And maybe display some rule when subscribing 
the mailing list?) ☺
— From what I remember, there is no South-America polygon in OSM. And 
given that about half its population speaks Portuguese as a main 
language (yes, Brazil is a big country), choosing Spanish for the name 
tag may not be as natural as it might look like.
— Esperanto is not meant to be more easily understandable without 
learning the language. There are languages with such goals (Interlingua, 
typically). The goal of (the design behind) Esperanto (before it started 
to evolve like a natural language) is to reduce the learning time to 
reach fluency without hindering on the language expressiveness.


Amike,
Martin.


Hi Tomek, and everybody.

being this an English list, I'll write in English, I'm tempted to use 
Spanish, or Italian.  my written Latin is poor.


I'm sorry to disappoint you as an Esperanto fan, but I understand 
Polish better than Esperanto.


Should I "vote" on your proposal?  I consider this the wrong place for 
holding even the discussion.  according to me, using the English 
language for naming "South America" in the standard map is bad enough, 
but I do not think (many) people from South America will tell you that 
**here**, because people who agree with you will not be reading you 
here.  If I know the locals good enough, they would want the map to be 
in Span

Re: [OSM-talk] [Tagging] nomoj de internaciaj objektoj / nazwy obiektów międzynarodowych / names of international objects

2020-01-06 Thread Marc Gemis
So isn't the only conclusion that you can make that pre-rendered tiles
fail as soon as one needs to serve a multi-language audience?

Wouldn't the best technical solution be vector tiles (or another
technology) and let the end-user choose in which language the names
are displayed?
Removing the "name" field will not solve the problems on osm.org. The
maintainers of the default style (and the other styles on osm.org)
will no longer be able to use the name field and will have to pick
another one in order to display some label. That choice will never
satisfy all needs.
E.g. a common question on help.openstreetmap.org and the different
fora is to change the labels to language X (typically English,
probably related to the nationality of the visitors).

m.

On Mon, Jan 6, 2020 at 1:50 PM Mario Frasca  wrote:
>
> Hi Tomek, and everybody.
>
> being this an English list, I'll write in English, I'm tempted to use 
> Spanish, or Italian.  my written Latin is poor.
>
> I'm sorry to disappoint you as an Esperanto fan, but I understand Polish 
> better than Esperanto.
>
> Should I "vote" on your proposal?  I consider this the wrong place for 
> holding even the discussion.  according to me, using the English language for 
> naming "South America" in the standard map is bad enough, but I do not think 
> (many) people from South America will tell you that **here**, because people 
> who agree with you will not be reading you here.  If I know the locals good 
> enough, they would want the map to be in Spanish just as they seem to have 
> the impression that the whole world (around them) speaks Spanish.  (I do not 
> know many people from Cayenne, Brazil, nor Suriname.)
>
> I disagree that the tag 'name' should be removed, and about the wikipedia 
> tag, and the fact that it generally points to the english wikipedia version, 
> too bad.  you will not solve this by removing the tag, you may try to educate 
> Latin speaking people to be more assertive, but I think it's a lost cause.
>
> I'm aware of one place in the world where they have three national languages: 
> Morocco, and what happens there is that the map uses the three national 
> languages for all names, and the map looks so clumsy this way, in particular 
> with the Amazigh name included (I have tested some locals on their knowledge 
> of the written language, and I am fairly sure that 95% of Amazigh people 
> can't even read it).  quite regularly, you see people editing the 'name' tag 
> to make it less clumsy, by removing two of the languages (those they don't 
> like, I guess).
>
> so, dear Tomek, I do not know what's the best option, but removing the 'name' 
> and the 'wikipedia' tag doesn't feel like the best one to me.  proposing it 
> here, even less.  my guess is that having a language option on the rendered 
> map would be better than this that you propose.  for some locations, I indeed 
> prefer the openstreetmap.fr map.
>
> as for the replies you are getting, I've noticed a dichotomy in the 
> community: people focusing on the actual point, and people focusing on the 
> form.  seems "cultural", and seems that European toes are less easily stepped 
> upon.  "you may try to educate English speaking people to be less assertive" 
> ;=)
>
> anyhow, cheers, and happy mapping,
>
> MF
>
> (nie piszem w twojm języku … want ik ken het niet, not enough at least.)
>
> On 05/01/2020 20:39, Tomek wrote:
>
> W dniu 20-01-06 o 02:25, stevea pisze:
>
> It's easy to goof things up and we shouldn't.
>
> EO
> Pardonu, mi ne estas provokisto, mi ne kondutas malserioze.
>
> Mi skribas en mia lingvo (pola) en internacia lingvo (Esperanto) kaj iam en 
> via lingvo (angla), kial vi ne estimas min kaj ne parolas en mia lingvo?
>
> Bonvolu koncentriĝu pri solvi la problemon pri nomoj.
>
>
>
> PL
> Przepraszam, nie jestem jakimś prowokatorem, nie wygłupiam się.
> Piszę w moim języku (polskim) w języku międzynarodowym (Esperanto) i czasami 
> w Twoim (angielskim), dlaczego Ty nie piszesz w moim języku?
>
> Proszę skoncentrować się na rozwiązaniu problemu nazw.
>
>
>
> EN
> I'm sorry, I'm not some kind of provocateur, I'm not fooling around.
> I write in my (Polish) language in the international language (Esperanto) and 
> sometimes in your (English), why don't you write in my language?
>
> Please focus on resolving the name problem.
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Re: [OSM-talk] [Tagging] nomoj de internaciaj objektoj / nazwy obiektów międzynarodowych / names of international objects

2020-01-06 Thread Mario Frasca

Hi Tomek, and everybody.

being this an English list, I'll write in English, I'm tempted to use 
Spanish, or Italian.  my written Latin is poor.


I'm sorry to disappoint you as an Esperanto fan, but I understand Polish 
better than Esperanto.


Should I "vote" on your proposal?  I consider this the wrong place for 
holding even the discussion.  according to me, using the English 
language for naming "South America" in the standard map is bad enough, 
but I do not think (many) people from South America will tell you that 
**here**, because people who agree with you will not be reading you 
here.  If I know the locals good enough, they would want the map to be 
in Spanish just as they seem to have the impression that the whole world 
(around them) speaks Spanish. (I do not know many people from Cayenne, 
Brazil, nor Suriname.)


I disagree that the tag 'name' should be removed, and about the 
wikipedia tag, and the fact that it generally points to the english 
wikipedia version, too bad.  you will not solve this by removing the 
tag, you may try to educate Latin speaking people to be more assertive, 
but I think it's a lost cause.


I'm aware of one place in the world where they have three national 
languages: Morocco, and what happens there is that the map uses the 
three national languages for all names, and the map looks so clumsy this 
way, in particular with the Amazigh name included (I have tested some 
locals on their knowledge of the written language, and I am fairly sure 
that 95% of Amazigh people can't even read it).  quite regularly, you 
see people editing the 'name' tag to make it less clumsy, by removing 
two of the languages (those they don't like, I guess).


so, dear Tomek, I do not know what's the best option, but removing the 
'name' and the 'wikipedia' tag doesn't feel like the best one to me.  
proposing it here, even less.  my guess is that having a language option 
on the rendered map would be better than this that you propose.  for 
some locations, I indeed prefer the openstreetmap.fr map.


as for the replies you are getting, I've noticed a dichotomy in the 
community: people focusing on the actual point, and people focusing on 
the form.  seems "cultural", and seems that European toes are less 
easily stepped upon.  "you may try to educate English speaking people to 
be less assertive" ;=)


anyhow, cheers, and happy mapping,

MF

(nie piszem w twojm języku … want ik ken het niet, not enough at least.)

On 05/01/2020 20:39, Tomek wrote:

W dniu 20-01-06 o 02:25, stevea pisze:

It's easy to goof things up and we shouldn't.

EO
Pardonu, mi ne estas provokisto, mi ne kondutas malserioze.

Mi skribas en mia lingvo (pola) en internacia lingvo (Esperanto) kaj 
iam en via lingvo (angla), kial vi ne estimas min kaj ne parolas en 
mia lingvo?


Bonvolu koncentriĝu pri solvi la problemon pri nomoj.



PL
Przepraszam, nie jestem jakimś prowokatorem, nie wygłupiam się.
Piszę w moim języku (polskim) w języku międzynarodowym (Esperanto) i 
czasami w Twoim (angielskim), dlaczego Ty nie piszesz w moim języku?


Proszę skoncentrować się na rozwiązaniu problemu nazw.



EN
I'm sorry, I'm not some kind of provocateur, I'm not fooling around.
I write in my (Polish) language in the international language 
(Esperanto) and sometimes in your (English), why don't you write in my 
language?


Please focus on resolving the name problem.

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