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<p><font face="Calibri, sans-serif">Why should OSM record the
meaning of names? </font></p>
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<p><font face="Calibri, sans-serif">A few Australian names have
meaning ... </font></p>
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<p><font face="Calibri, sans-serif"><span><span>Kirribilli </span></span>means
'place across the water'.</font></p>
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<p><font face="Calibri, sans-serif">Should these be recorded in
OSM?</font></p>
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<p><font face="Calibri, sans-serif">I think not. </font></p>
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<div class="moz-cite-prefix">On 24/1/20 9:01 am,
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US">So if I understand you
correctly I’d suggest something like name:literally and
name:XX:literally which describes the literal meaning of
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="border:none;padding:0cm"><b>From:
</b><a href="mailto:marc_marc_irc@hotmail.com"
moz-do-not-send="true">marc marc</a><br>
<b>Sent: </b>Donnerstag, 23. Januar 2020 22:51<br>
<b>To: </b><a href="mailto:tagging@openstreetmap.org"
moz-do-not-send="true">tag</a><br>
<b>Subject: </b>[Tagging] a kind of name:XX-modern-not-used</p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">Hello,</p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><o:p> </o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">some words in the name of some street is
not understood by some people.</p>
<p class="MsoNormal">these are often old notations, sometimes
borrowed from another language</p>
<p class="MsoNormal">but used in the official language to name
this street.</p>
<p class="MsoNormal">street sign have those
"one-name-but-in-mixed-language" and only that.</p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><o:p> </o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">a contributor spends time trying to find
the meaning of these words and</p>
<p class="MsoNormal">replaces the name with a modern version,
absent both from the ground and</p>
<p class="MsoNormal">from use, in favour of a name that is the
one that could have been</p>
<p class="MsoNormal">written if this street had been created
today.</p>
<p class="MsoNormal">it's a bit as if this contributor added to
Big Ben name:fr="Grand Ben"</p>
<p class="MsoNormal">or "Nouveau York" for "New York"</p>
<p class="MsoNormal">it's obviously wrong. but how could we keep
track of the meanings</p>
<p class="MsoNormal">of the words from the old days?</p>
<p class="MsoNormal">I thinking about a kind of tag
name:fr-modern-not-used or a kind of</p>
<p class="MsoNormal">name:etymology but which does not inform a
person but an object, a</p>
<p class="MsoNormal">building, a profession, ...</p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><o:p> </o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">Any ideas?</p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><o:p> </o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">Regards,</p>
<p class="MsoNormal">Marc</p>
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