2015-05-28 11:58 GMT+02:00 Frederik Ramm <frede...@remote.org>: > 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. >
how did you verify this? > > 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. > You are trying to disqualify foreign languages in London by saying they were "Martian", which they surely aren't, I'll bet on this if you like ;-) Are you aware that in London there are more than 250 languages spoken? People living there, not just visitors. Here's a link: http://resources.woodlands-junior.kent.sch.uk/customs/questions/regions/languages.htm London is special in this context, as it is a truely global city like there are very few (NYC, Tokyo, Hongkong, maybe a few others like Paris, Dubai, Moskow (?), ...) > > 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. > please acknowledge that there are minorities in every bigger place that do actively speak those languages. They ARE local (often). Cheers, Martin
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