Hi, On 05/28/2015 10:19 AM, Paweł Paprota wrote: > But what exactly is the problem that you're trying to solve with this > idea?
I think that OSM is a database of local knowledge and culture, not of remote knowledge and culture added from afar. Therefore I find it out of place for OSM to see that objects like the London node receive a constant flow of edits from people whose only link to London is that they happen to speak a language in which London has a different name. I feel that there are two totally different planes of editing - one is what's on the ground in London, mapped by people in London, and the other is what name the Martian civilization has chosen to give to London, something in which Londoners have no say whatsoever. The name:xx tags are, if you will, the only tags for which the local mappers are not, and cannot be, the ultimate authority. And that's what makes name:xx stick out like a sore thumb for me; in my mind, OSM is first and foremost a project that lets the people control their map, instead of being told and labelled from afar. Bye Frederik -- Frederik Ramm ## eMail frede...@remote.org ## N49°00'09" E008°23'33" _______________________________________________ talk mailing list talk@openstreetmap.org https://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk