I have one general question. Some OSM relations contain a link to a Wikidata item. For those relations, would it be possible to automatically import the names in several languages and do so in a way that changes in OSM also change Wikidata?
Thanks, Micru On Thu, May 28, 2015 at 6:37 PM, SomeoneElse <li...@atownsend.org.uk> wrote: > On 28/05/2015 16:38, Andrew Guertin wrote: > >> >> A quick internet search shows plenty of results for Абергавенни, >> including Wikipedia, hotel booking sites, and Harry Potter websites, and by >> looking at Google's book results, you can see that it's been in use since >> at least the 1800s. And with just a few minutes' look, I found someone from >> the next city over using the name[1]. I understand this was just an >> example, but it seems to show the opposite of what you wanted. The town >> with the English name Abergavenny also has a Russian name Абергавенни, >> which is in use by locals, and has been established for hundreds of years. >> > > No, it does not. Abergavenny / Y Fenni has actual names that people from > there use to describe the place (and appears on signs) in two languages; > "Абергавенни" is merely a translation of one of them. It's not verifiable > on the ground. > > There is a fundamental difference between "an actual name for a place" and > "a translation of one of those names" - it's that distinction that we would > lose by populating name:ru, name:xx or whatever alongside name:cy and > name:en. The russian-language link talking about Abergavenny Food Festival > does indeed use the word "Абергавенни"- and that's a translation of > "Abergavenny" in that message (they even put "Abergavenny" in brackets > afterwards to make it clear that that's what it is - it's clearly not > guaranteed to be understood on its own). > > If "Абергавенни" is added as name:ru for Abergavenny, how would we tell > the real names (the ones that people have historically used locally to > refer to the place) from the tranlations? > > Cheers, > > Andy > > > > _______________________________________________ > talk mailing list > talk@openstreetmap.org > https://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk > -- Etiamsi omnes, ego non
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