That is an outstanding way to say a whole bunch of good stuff all at once. +1
is an understatement.
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Thank you for this message! You are completely right.
I meant relatively simple in the sense that there are two “obvious”
languages to which a large majority of the region’s speakers minimally
relate to. But you are completely right that it is already an
oversimplification! I do understand
On Jan 10, 2020, at 7:06 AM, Martin Constantino–Bodin
wrote:
> I fully agree. I was only taking the example of South America because its
> language community is relatively simple given the size of its area ☺ But I
> agree that it’s probably not something that we should actually map. Sorry
>
10 Jan 2020, 16:06 by martin.bo...@ens-lyon.org
> About oceans, would you advise to not map them entirely
>
Yes. It is subjective, there are multiple conflicting
ways of deciding ocean borders and
even count of them.
But as long as someone maps them as nodes it is easy to
ignore them.
And anyway
I fully agree. I was only taking the example of South America because
its language community is relatively simple given the size of its area ☺
But I agree that it’s probably not something that we should actually
map. Sorry about that: it wasn’t clear in my message.
About oceans, would you
The main problem with tagging continents is that there is no agreement
on the number or definition.
While most English-speakers identify 7 political continents, many
people in Latin American call "America" one continent. Eurasia is
often also treated as one continent, leading to 5 continents
On 07/01/2020 06:53, Martin Constantino–Bodin wrote:
Maybe we can sometimes factorise? Like “América del Sur / do Sul” for
South America
fortunate case: it's América in both languages (Catalan has Amèrica).
you can possibly even use América Meridional and cover both in one shot.
(By the way, I really appreciate the arguments that are given in this
thread: we’re doing good work here! ☺)
So, it seems that we can’t really make these changes to the OSM database
because there are technical issues in the OSM renderrers to be solved
first. In particular, it is currently
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