On Sat, 2015-05-30 at 20:55 +1000, Warin wrote: > On 30/05/2015 8:41 PM, Roland Olbricht wrote: > > Hi, > > > >> On 05/30/2015 09:48 AM, Roland Olbricht wrote: > >>> Thank you for informing the community. Do you actually have substantial > >>> evidence of a mechanical edit or something similar? > >> > >> There are a couple individual complaints and license issues (people > >> taking names from a collection of military maps published in Russia in > >> 2008, or from Wikipedia which is CC-BY-SA licensed). Quite a few users > >> have already been blocked about mass-adding name:ru in the past (eg > >> http://www.openstreetmap.org/user_blocks/563). > > > > Thank you. Reading the text of this block > > I too now understand the name:ru 'problem', no so much 'inflation' but > possible licence infringement.
Many of the places involved are unlikely to be well known in Russia and have a Russian name, some were unknown to most of us in GB. Abergavenny as an example is not a large city, it is a small market town in rural Wales. It is not a major centre of either commerce or international tourism. Phil (trigpoint) _______________________________________________ talk mailing list talk@openstreetmap.org https://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk
