Hi, Komяpa: > What exactly are we trying to save by omitting these locales, what wasn't eaten already by source= on French buildings? :)
Martin Koppenhoefer: > even of tiger:name_base_1 there are more than a million, almost double the > amount of all Russian names in osm. Firstly: It is a common fallacy for people in OSM to argue: "Someone else is doing stupid things, and while they do that, everyone else should certainly be allowed to do stupid things also." I don't buy into that logic; just because silly (or sillier) stuff happens elsewhere in OSM doesn't mean that lesser problems should automatically be ignored. Secondly: I am less concerned about rubbish remaining from imports because that can be cleaned up without someone complaining. I am more concerned about things that become established and all of a sudden you find there's no way back because people rely on it. KSJ2:filename is not one of these tags. Thirdly: My main problem with name tag inflation is not the data volume (even though I can see this becoming an issue if someone should really argue that each named object "has a name" in each of the several thousand langauges on the planet!). My problem is that people start labelling places they have zero knowledge of, relying on military atlases from 50 years ago, or dubious travel websites, or transliterated guesswork, or database lookups. In my opinion this is often not verifiable, at least not for the usual sense in which we use "verifiable". Bye Frederik -- Frederik Ramm ## eMail frede...@remote.org ## N49°00'09" E008°23'33" _______________________________________________ talk mailing list talk@openstreetmap.org https://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk