+1 to Dave. OSM is universal, full stop. On Thu, May 28, 2015 at 4:27 PM, Dave Corley <davecor...@gmail.com> wrote:
> I am honestly stunned this thread has gone on for as long as it has. > > In regards to > > >> >> On 05/28/2015 09:19 PM, Frederik Ramm wrote: >> > What I would not support in OSM, and like to outsource to Wikidata or >> > other, is if speakers of these 20 languages were to start assigning name >> > tags in their language to thousands of places in, say, the UK. >> >> *Especially* if their reasoning was that this makes it nicer for them to >> run a tank through these places in their own-language war simulation >> with their buddies. >> >> > On the first point, why not? There are maps of the world in English, > French, German etc etc. I see no logical reason to object to "certain" > languages being used in the name tag. That is the whole point of the > flexibility of that tag. The scale of usage is null and void. Either its > acceptable everywhere or its acceptable nowhere. Anything in between is > entirely subjective and completely unfair. > > On the second point, since when do we care about the motivation about why > certain data gets added. If someone wants to add 3d tagging to utilise in a > 3d map they are creating, do we nitpick about that? If Scout adds speed > limits to make their app more effective, do we complain? > > Lastly, and I think this is important point. To quote the wiki header > "..... the project that creates and distributes free geographic data for > the world." Either this is a database of worldwide geodata or its not. > There's no half-way in that statement. Either all cultures, languages, > countries, people and the variety these elements bring in terms of tagging, > is accepted on a universal basis or its not. > > If its not, then that's an entirely different conversation. > > Dave > > _______________________________________________ > talk mailing list > talk@openstreetmap.org > https://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk > >
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