Note that lots of the wikidata names are nonsense and are simply derived from the wikipedia page name (which a wp page has to have, but it doesn't imply that the object actually has a name in the language of the wikipedia you are looking at). For example the municipality I live in has a German and a Swiss-German name, it -doesn't- have names in any of the other 31 languages that are listed.
Simon
Am 25.03.2020 um 11:00 schrieb pang...@riseup.net:
> Honestly I don't think it makes sense for OSM to have names at all on
> objects which has a Wikidata reference. We are just too small a
> community to keep this updated and it has little value to duplicate to
> the efforts made by others.
> If any names I suggest we have a bot autoupdating all name tags
> according to the values in Wikidata. If there is no Wikidata item it
> should be found/created.
> It really is'nt hard to populate a map with geographical data from OSM
> and query the names the user wants to see from WD.
> This offloads a huge burden as I see it.
> All our tools that currently invites our users to include a name could
> be adapted so that the user is aware that OSM is about geodata and
> names are for WD and best stored/updated there.
> If we allow a name to be set only when no qid we avoid the bulk of
> these problems.
> When a qid is set a bot could remove all names for languages already
> present in WD.
>
> On March 25, 2020 10:45:03 AM GMT+01:00, Andrew Hain
> <andrewhain...@hotmail.co.uk> wrote:
>
> Why on earth would we not (excluding exceptional copyright issues)
> want to have lots of different name:XX tags?
>
> --
> Andrew
>
> ------------------------------------------------------------------------
> *From:* Frederik Ramm <frede...@remote.org>
> *Sent:* 25 March 2020 09:26
> *To:* Tag discussion, strategy and related tools
> <tagging@openstreetmap.org>
> *Subject:* [Tagging] Which languages are admissible for name:xx tags?
>
> Hi,
>
> the "name:xx" tags are something of an exception in OSM because
> while we
> defer to "local knowledge" as the highest-ranking source normally,
> this
> is not being done for name:xx tags. It is possible for no single
> citizen
> of the city of Karlsruhe to know its Russian name, but still a Russian
> name could exist. Who is the highest-ranking source for that?
>
> My guess is that about 5% of name:xx tags in OSM actually represent a
> unique name in its own right; all others are either copies of the name
> tag ("this city does not have its own name in language XX but I want
> every city to have a name:xx tag so I'll just copy the name tag"), or
> transliterations (or, worst case, even literal translations).
>
> A while ago we had a longer discussion about Esperanto names; in that
> discussion, it was questioned whether Esperanto could be in the
> name tag
> but nobody disputed that adding name:eo tags is ok, even though
> Esperanto is an invented (or "constructed") language.
>
> Yesterday someone added a few dozen Klingon names to countries in
> OSM. I
> have reverted that because of a copyright issue, but I think we also
> need to discuss which languages we want to accept for name:xx tags.
>
> In my opinion, a name:xx tag should only be added if you can
> demonstrate
> that people natively speaking the living language xx are actually
> using
> this name for this entity. I think we have a very unhealthy
> inflation of
> names in OSM that are added by "single-purpose mappers" - they
> come in,
> stick a name:my-favourite-language tag onto everything, and go away
> again. Nobody knows if these names are even correct, and nobody cares
> for their maintenance. The country North Macedonia changed its name
> almost one year ago, yet roughly half of its ~ 170 name tags are still
> what they were before this change. Nobody cares; these names suggest a
> data richness that is not backed up by an actual living community that
> cares for them.
>
> What are your opinions on which languages should be accepted in name
> tags? What do you think about
>
> * niche constructed languages (say, FredLang which has 2 words I
> invented just now)
> * popular constructed languages (Klingon, Elvish) - note place
> names in
> these languages will often be algorithmically derived from the English
> or local name
> * "serious" constructed languages (Esperanto)
> * languages that once existed but are not natively spoken any more
> (Roman)
> * languages that are natively spoken but their speakers do not have
> their own name for the entity in question (instead they use the same
> name the locals use, possibly transcribed into a different alphabet)
> * ...
>
> Or if you don't have the time to think about this in detail, just
> answer
> the question: tlhIngan Hol - Hlja' or ghobe'?
>
> Bye
> Frederik
>
>
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