Aug 9, 2020, 11:09 by pang...@riseup.net: > >"there is no such thing as an international name. Names are part of a > >language whih is part of a culture. They are not GIS objects and the > >osm datamodel does not handle this complexity well at all." > >> >> > >Are you aware that we have other tags beyond name tag? > > Yes > Then what kind of complexity is not handled by OSM?
> >loc_name, name:pl and many others? > That is not handled by already existing tags? If there is some actual problem then it should be solved. > >"No more name vandalism in osm. We export the name handling to > >wikidata which has a much better system for handling vandalism." > >> >> > >Because vandalism in third-party service is superior? > >Are you seriously claiming that Wikidata has less trouble with > >vandalism > >and deals with it better? > > Yes. The new york defacement could most probably have been avoided wih this > approach. > How it would be avoided? How pulling data from Wikidata would change anything in such case?
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