Le 26/02/2016 10:16, Martin Koppenhoefer a écrit : > > 2016-02-26 10:05 GMT+01:00 Jean-Guilhem Cailton <j...@arkemie.com > <mailto:j...@arkemie.com>>: > > > are these names English or fiji or hindi? > > > > cheers > > Martin > > > > They are "name" found in reports from Fijian officials or medias - > that > apparently use English, an official language in Fiji (I haven't seen > Fijian news reports in other languages - yet) - and often found in the > "name" tag in OSM in Fiji. And in 1944 US topo maps for "old_name". > > > > > I find it problematic to make remote edits based on foreign maps and > add names in a foreign language as main names, although because of > colonization this foreign language is apparently used as lingua > franca. I see this as kind of ungoing colonization, where I'd actually > expect people use names in their first language to refer to the places > they live. From a quick internet search it appears that English isn't > the first language for a vast majority of people living in Fiji. My > suggestion is to use the tags name:en and old_name:en for names and > old names in English. > > Cheers, > Martin
Apparently your point of view about "ungoing colonization" is not shared by Fidjian officials, news media, nor by OSM mappers of Fiji so far. Best regards, Jean-Guilhem https://twitter.com/jgvisov -- "On ne m’ôtera pas de l’idée que, pendant la dernière guerre mondiale, de nombreux juifs ont eu une attitude carrément hostile à l’égard du régime nazi." Pierre Desproges "I won't be deprived of the idea that, during the last world war, many Jews had a downright hostile attitude toward the Nazi regime."
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