On Fri May 29 10:42:27 2015 GMT+0100, Nick Whitelegg wrote: > > Exactly. Us Western Europeans would find Romanised versions of names useful > when travelling out of Western Europe (to give a real example: I'm visiting > Greece this summer, and while I'm just about at the stage where I think I can > decode the Greek alphabet, Romanised versions are definitely helpful), and > the converse should also be true. > I remember street names in Athens were in both latin and Greek alphabets when I was there, although greek is at least recognisable to most westerners due to its use in maths and science. > You don't even need on the ground evidence. You just need someone with > knowledge of Cyrillic and Roman alphabets to be able to transliterate > Abergavenny into the Cyrillic, presumably.
Transliteration is something that can be done at application level, and a traveller would have learned the basics. You still need to be able to check the street names against.what is on the sign. Then why not have a single transliteration? A single cryllic to latin transliteration will serve all languages using the latin alphabet, do we need separate Russian, Ukrainian, Serbo Croat tags when they are identical? Phil (trigpoint) > > Nick > > ________________________________________ > From: Andrew Hain <andrewhain...@hotmail.co.uk> > Sent: 29 May 2015 07:07 > To: talk@openstreetmap.org > Subject: Re: [OSM-talk] Can wikidata links help fight name inflation? > > Dave Corley <davecorley <at> gmail.com> writes: > > > 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. > > Thank you Dave. As a British mapper I am ashamed that some people want to > make the map of my country less useful, and not only to Russian speakers a > long way away. > > -- > Andrew > _______________________________________________ > talk mailing list > talk@openstreetmap.org > https://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk > > _______________________________________________ > talk mailing list > talk@openstreetmap.org > https://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk > -- Sent from my Jolla _______________________________________________ talk mailing list talk@openstreetmap.org https://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk
