> > I'm genuinely curious: How do people in Russia search for places that are > not in Russia? If you search for London, do you search for London or do you > search for Лондон? > I know I am not searching for Москва, Новосибирск, or Владивосток when I > need Moscow, Novosibirsk or Wladiwostok. I can't even type those > characters. Wouldn't it be normal that placenames are transliterated? >
People in Russia usually use russian names of objects. Culturally, until google maps was invented, every family in xUSSR seemed to have ~300-page world atlas, ( https://ru.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D0%90%D1%82%D0%BB%D0%B0%D1%81_%D0%BC%D0%B8%D1%80%D0%B0), that has all the names in the world in Russian. Not everybody can even read latin, at all. :) -- Darafei "Komяpa" Praliaskouski OSM BY Team - http://openstreetmap.by/ xmpp:m...@komzpa.net mailto:m...@komzpa.net
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