Re: [Talk-GB] Addition of Wikipedia links in German!

2012-11-04 Thread Colin Smale
WARNING: CHECK YOUR BOUNDARIES! Longbow4u has been causing other problems with these edits as well. In Kent the boundaries of Ashford and Shepway districts have been emptied of ways. The addition of wikipedia links is continuing apace, sometimes in English, sometimes in German. This changese

Re: [Talk-GB] Addition of Wikipedia links in German!

2012-10-22 Thread Steve Doerr
On 22/10/2012 09:36, Matt Williams wrote: On 21 October 2012 23:53, Philip Barnes wrote: What is the language code for Anglo-Saxon? 'ang' (ISO 639-2) And they do have a Wikipedia: http://ang.wikipedia.org/wiki/H%C4%93afods%C4%ABde -- Steve ___ T

Re: [Talk-GB] Addition of Wikipedia links in German!

2012-10-22 Thread Tom Chance
On 21 October 2012 23:13, SomeoneElse wrote: > Personally, I'd say that if the process requires the duplication of > exactly the same value as is already in "name" that the process is flawed... I think it can be useful because the article name isn't always just the OSM object's "name" value. Le

Re: [Talk-GB] Addition of Wikipedia links in German!

2012-10-22 Thread Matt Williams
On 21 October 2012 23:53, Philip Barnes wrote: > On Sun, 2012-10-21 at 23:13 +0100, SomeoneElse wrote: >> Robert Norris wrote: >> > But I still think it would be better to put wikipedia=en:ENGLISH_NAME for >> > places in England. >> > >> Personally, I'd say that if the process requires the duplic

Re: [Talk-GB] Addition of Wikipedia links in German!

2012-10-21 Thread Brian Quinion
On 21 October 2012 16:08, Robert Norris wrote: > > > to add a tags such as "wikipedia = de:Portsmouth" > > One can't help but wonder what the point of such tags are (an indeed > website), as any intelligent web search based on the name of the object > (and +wikipedia) and maybe UK or the county wi

Re: [Talk-GB] Addition of Wikipedia links in German!

2012-10-21 Thread Philip Barnes
On Sun, 2012-10-21 at 23:13 +0100, SomeoneElse wrote: > Robert Norris wrote: > > But I still think it would be better to put wikipedia=en:ENGLISH_NAME for > > places in England. > > > Personally, I'd say that if the process requires the duplication of > exactly the same value as is already in "na

Re: [Talk-GB] Addition of Wikipedia links in German!

2012-10-21 Thread SomeoneElse
Robert Norris wrote: But I still think it would be better to put wikipedia=en:ENGLISH_NAME for places in England. Personally, I'd say that if the process requires the duplication of exactly the same value as is already in "name" that the process is flawed... Cheers, Andy __

Re: [Talk-GB] Addition of Wikipedia links in German!

2012-10-21 Thread Robert Norris
"because of the WIWOSM feature in Wikipedia. By adding one link to a Wikipedia-Article (which language is not important) on the relation of an administrative district, the area will be marked in the maps of some wikipedias (de, it, es etc (however, not yet en)) as a field. Find more informat

Re: [Talk-GB] Addition of Wikipedia links in German!

2012-10-21 Thread Robert Norris
> Looks bonkers to me. Have you tried sending them a polite message > asking them what what the purpose of the links are that they're adding? > It was quite succinct, so maybe not that polite. ___ Talk-GB

Re: [Talk-GB] Addition of Wikipedia links in German!

2012-10-21 Thread Philip Barnes
I am baffled by this one http://www.openstreetmap.org/browse/changeset/13567143, amongst many others. Anyone able to ask why in a politely worded German email? Phil -- Sent from my Nokia N9 On 21/10/2012 16:33 SomeoneElse wrote: On 21/10/2012 16:08, Robert Norris wrote: > http://www.openst

Re: [Talk-GB] Addition of Wikipedia links in German!

2012-10-21 Thread SomeoneElse
On 21/10/2012 16:08, Robert Norris wrote: http://www.openstreetmap.org/user/Longbow4u/edits http://www.openstreetmap.org/browse/changeset/13577963 to add a tags such as "wikipedia = de:Portsmouth" Looks bonkers to me. Have you tried sending them a polite message asking them what what the pu

[Talk-GB] Addition of Wikipedia links in German!

2012-10-21 Thread Robert Norris
Seeing these edits: http://www.openstreetmap.org/user/Longbow4u/edits http://www.openstreetmap.org/browse/changeset/13577963 to add a tags such as "wikipedia = de:Portsmouth" One can't help but wonder what the point of such tags are (an indeed website), as any intelligent web search based on