On Sat, Feb 25, 2012 at 10:18 AM, Aleksandar Cirkovic <ci...@web.de> wrote: > @Milos Komarcevic > I don't understand why you feel the project and / or community would be > broken. This sounds to like you are offended, and it is not what I had in > mind. Feel free to contribute in any way you like, please.
Because we're going through this same argument at least twice year. We enter data one way, then somebody changes it the other way a couple of months later just because they have some subjective fear and loathing of one script or the other, then somebody changes it back, and so on, and we end up with the mess we have now. As I said, if ping-pong was what I was looking for, I'll find it somewhere else thank you very much. This is wasting time and effort instead of concentrating on the mapping, and I feel less and less inclined to continue contributing. I have been involved with many open source Serbian localization projects over a few years now, and we learned an important lesson that is so fundamentally obvious, that it becomes frustrating having to explain it over and over again to people who refuse think logically. And it boils down to: Serbian is perfectly well recorded using the Cyrillic script, and EVERYTHING else can easily and SHOULD be AUTOMATICALLY transliterated and transcribed from it. Going the other way DOES NOT WORK (at least not as easily). 1+1=? All other historic and national reasons aside, this is a single and obvious TECHNICAL advantage that lets us cover all bases at once, and if we don't start exploiting it by building OSM on solid foundations, I'd really rather focus my effort on some other project. Regards, M _______________________________________________ Talk-rs mailing list Talk-rs@openstreetmap.org http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk-rs
