On 05/08/14 08:06, Pavlo Dudka wrote: > It seems that the only place not allowed for adding name:** is UK. > That's why I started this discussion here. Should we discuss it > internationaly? > > 2014-08-05 2:37 GMT+03:00 Lester Caine <les...@lsces.co.uk > <mailto:les...@lsces.co.uk>>: > > On 05/08/14 00:11, Richard Fairhurst wrote: > > Andrew Hain wrote: > >> > It was only put in recently and I personally find it unhelpful. > Would > >> > anyone object to removing it? > > Yes. > Ditto ... The alternate name tagging is designed where there are > alternate names in other languages. Simply writing a name in a different > alphabet is something that the renderer can do if required. > > But this is a discussion for the international list rather than just > the UK?
Discussing a guide line set up internationally on a local list is what I was commenting on. Certainly removing one requires discussion. But like many areas of the data process, personally I'd prefer that the secondary data was in a secondary database, but then I had thought geonames provided translations :( http://translationjournal.net/journal/28names.htm recommends translation of places where there is not a specific translation then the local language is retained. I suppose all I am looking at is finding locations on-line that I recognise, If there is a translation dictionary on-line for every place name into Chinese and Chinese literature uses those names, then on paper fine, every 'translation' should be copied to OSM? It's this overload of material that I feel is wrong when there SHOULD be some other means of identifying the translation. If there is NOT a documented translation of a name, then it should not be invented, which is basically I think what the guide line was trying to avoid? We do not want to become the 'primary' source of translations, only reflecting what is ALREADY documented elsewhere. -- Lester Caine - G8HFL ----------------------------- Contact - http://lsces.co.uk/wiki/?page=contact L.S.Caine Electronic Services - http://lsces.co.uk EnquirySolve - http://enquirysolve.com/ Model Engineers Digital Workshop - http://medw.co.uk Rainbow Digital Media - http://rainbowdigitalmedia.co.uk _______________________________________________ Talk-GB mailing list Talk-GB@openstreetmap.org https://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk-gb
