The reply from Maps.me was "We plan to add multi-lingual names in one of
our future releases, we’ll think about your suggestion."
No timescale given. The reason for why "people are suddenly waking up"
is because we are getting lots of edits now - that was not the case
before - at least not in our area. Perhaps these are just very dedicated
Chinese mappers that have suddenly arrived in Europe or the app has
gained more traction and so more tourists are using it.
Example: (Russian?) tourist using name fields to write English descriptions.
* http://www.openstreetmap.org/changeset/39823668
I'm thinking of the need to make some sort of a watch bot that keeps the
correct names of places and warns if the names are changed (translations
added or descriptions put in) - Data Quality Assurance is becoming a
bigger and bigger issue in OSM where before Data Entry was sorely needed
(and still is in many places).
--JBJ
Þann 17.6.2016 20:44, skrifaði Simon Poole:
Am 17.06.2016 um 19:30 schrieb Martin Koppenhoefer:
...
I hope they are acting fast,
...
This is a months old, non-news, story at this point in time with the
initial burst of bad edits way back, the only interesting aspect is
why people suddenly seem to have woken up now.
Naturally the Chinese name issue
http://osmlab.github.io/osm-deep-history/#/node/2306343684 is in the
end simply a bug, the other, conceptual, problems are more serious.
Simon
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