The Ukrainian names were added after the mapper engaged the UK community. Phil (trigpoint)
On Fri May 29 11:27:41 2015 GMT+0100, moltonel 3x Combo wrote: > On 29/05/2015, SomeoneElse <li...@atownsend.org.uk> wrote: > > On 29/05/2015 07:07, Andrew Hain wrote: > >> 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. > > > > Hang on, where is _anybody_ saying that? The whole point of the thread > > is about whether it would be possible to use wikidata to make the map > > _more_ useful to people who don't speak a particular language, not > > less. > > The thread opening was indeed about using wikidata translations (which > would make the map more usefull for all) and perhaps deprecating > name:CC in OSM as a result (which is much more debatable). > > But then the question came up (By Richard I think ?) of which name:CC > should be kept for a particular object, and the large number of > name:ru in the UK (reverted by you and others) was given as an example > of an unaccepable name:CC. And then some agreed that name:en in > non-English-speaking coutries should get the same treatment. > > This second paragraph can be seen as making the map less useful (I > share that POV). It has been argued that the reverts were justified > because the names were just transliterations and not real names, but I > think that this was overzealous (it wasn't blind tranliteration, there > was human skill involved). Even if it was justified, the reversals > were either sloppy or biased : see > http://www.openstreetmap.org/node/10021976/history which got > "name:ru Лестер" deleted but was allowed to keep "name:uk Лестер". > > And just to be clear: pushing the decision of whether Лестер is the > correct russian name of Leicester to wikidata just so that OSM looks > cleaner is not a solution. > > _______________________________________________ > 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
