On Thu, 5 Jan 2023 11:00:57 +0100 Anne- Karoline Distel <annekadis...@web.de> wrote:
>I personally found old, yet now maybe offensive names on OpenStreetMap >very useful when I was trying to locate senders' locations of >postcards written by German soldiers in WW1 from the eastern and >western front. But it may not be so useful for Germans traveling to those locations and using the names on their OSM map when communicating with locals. > No other online map would have been any help to me, But should such names not be on OpenHistoricalMap, if they are no longer in use. >especially since many of the placenames were written phonetically. And >it was another point for me to believe in OSM. I say, keep those, but >don't willy nilly translate place names. Historic truth beats >dictionary truth. > >Anne > >-- >Sent from my Android phone with WEB.DE Mail. Please excuse my brevity. >On 04/01/2023, 22:16 Frederik Ramm <frede...@remote.org> wrote: Hi, >> >> On 1/4/23 13:05, Marc_marc wrote: >> > or nothing due the fact that the only "Mörthe und Mosel“ >> > is on https://www.openstreetmap.org/relation/51856 >> > with a name=* in french :) >> >> It does have a name:de though, like other French departements - I was >> rahter surprised to read "Großer Osten" on a map with German labels, >> and later found out that there are indeed German tourist guides for >> this part of France that carry this name. >> >> It is not always easy to determine whether a name is (a) harmless >> and in use, (b) a silly translation that has no basis in reality >> ("pont neuf" = "Neue Brücke", or the recently discovered Latin name >> "sub tilias" for the well-known street "Unter den Linden" in >> Berlin), or (c) a tactless reminder of times of occupation. >> >> We shold prioritize names that are actually signposted on the ground, >> and for those that aren't, at least require a clear indication that >> the name is actually used in everyday language by living beings. >> >> Bye >> Frederik >> >> -- >> Frederik Ramm ## eMail frede...@remote.org ## N49°00'09" E008°23'33" >> >> _______________________________________________ >> Tagging mailing list >> Tagging@openstreetmap.org >> https://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/tagging >> _______________________________________________ Tagging mailing list Tagging@openstreetmap.org https://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/tagging
