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> On 12. Jan 2020, at 22:28, Alan Mackie <aamac...@gmail.com> wrote: > > The elephant in the room here is that this is a project founded in London in > (British) English. Regardless of the 'name' tag, all the main tags are > themselves written in English, the official wording of the license is in > English, the primary documentation is in English, the historical discussions > about standard practice, most of the tools, etc. etc. etc.. Changing the > 'façade' on international objects will not change this underlying fact, and I > don't think there is good enough a reason to. if you dig deeper, you can see that OpenStreetMap is not only British, there have been some other influences as well, despite the language mostly looking like English > > OpenStreetMap is open source, the whole thing can be machine translated into > Esperanto, Klingon or Latin if you like, all you have to do is fork it. I > suspect the forked project will see far less use, especially if you choose a > niche constructed language that never really caught on. and you would not get a Klingon project but a British one in Klingon language ;-) Cheers Martin _______________________________________________ talk mailing list talk@openstreetmap.org https://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk
