Hello Aussies, the closing of the Uluru Climb gathered international news. So I had a look at Uluru and saw some naming inconsistencies which might be improved. I found no prior discussion about it and the features in OSM have stable naming since 2015, so this seems to be a topic worth a look.
OSM has two features (notice the underlined r on some names which is native Pitjantjatjara): a) The peak (https://www.openstreetmap.org/node/2251425855) name = Uluṟu name:en = Uluru (Ayers Rock) name:pjt = Uluṟu alt_name = Uluru b) The "bare_rock" (https://www.openstreetmap.org/way/32639987/) name = Uluṟu (Ayers Rock) name:en = Uluru (Ayers Rock) name:pjt= Uluṟu Two issues: 1. Name is inconsistent between the two 2. The Ayers Rock in parenthesis looks more like description than a name For the following proposals I added the English and Pitjantjatjara explicitly because Uluru has some translated names. My preferred proposal for both features: name = Uluṟu name:en = Uluru name:pjt = Uluṟu alt_name = Ayers Rock alt_name:en = Ayers Rock official_name = Uluru / Ayers Rock official_name:en = Uluru / Ayers Rock Alternative proposal for both: name = Uluru / Ayers Rock name:en = Uluru / Ayers Rock name:pjt = Uluṟu alt_name = Uluṟu alt_name:pjt = Uluṟu alt_name:en = Uluru old_name = Ayers Rock old_name:en = Ayers Rock Some points to consider: Uluru seems to be generally seen as the preferred name nowadays in Australia. I played a bit with Google Trends to see the extent (https://trends.google.de/trends/explore?date=all&geo=AU&q=ayers%20rock,uluru) The official name is the dual name Uluru / Ayers Rock (http://www.ntlis.nt.gov.au/placenames/view.jsp?id=10532) The park is co-operated by Anangu and the Australian Government and names it Uluru exclusively (https://parksaustralia.gov.au/uluru/about/ayers-rock-or-uluru/) Best regards Joachim/Jojo4u from Germany _______________________________________________ Talk-au mailing list Talk-au@openstreetmap.org https://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk-au