On Fri, May 29, 2015 at 11:59 PM, Roland Olbricht <roland.olbri...@gmx.de> wrote: > > - I had no internet connectivity in that situation, hence "wikidata", any > other external database or even non-copied OSM data was not an option.
If wikidata is mined for it's rich database of names, that data can (and should) either be periodically mirrored into the OSM data structures, or provided in bulk form for things like offline smartphone apps. Any given user likely needs only one or two of the languages present. Using wikidata vastly increases the number of available local variants of each place name: https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q84 ----- That said there's still a place for copying the "visible on the ground" information, such as if a street sign or town welcome sign is available in multiple scripts.
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