<div dir="ltr"><div>Belarusian OR russian should be used as government languages, new created toponims used belarusian and then transliterated to russian or other languages.</div><div><br></div><div>There are few additionals:</div><div><br></div><div>On plates for towns and villages commonly used belarusian, on plates for river and lakes commonly used belarusian, more difficult question for street plates and public transport, but in Minsk (capital of Belarus) for streets and public transport commonly used belarusian.<br></div></div><br><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr">On Sat, 3 Sept 2022 at 23:22, Graeme Fitzpatrick <<a href="mailto:graemefitz1@gmail.com">graemefitz1@gmail.com</a>> wrote:<br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex"><div dir="ltr"><div>Sorry if it's an "awkward" question, but what language does the Government of Belarus say must / should be used?</div><div><br></div><div><div><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div><div dir="ltr">Thanks<div><br></div><div>Graeme</div></div></div></div></div></div><br></div></div><br><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr">On Sat, 3 Sept 2022 at 22:24, Paveł Tyślacki <<a href="mailto:pavel.tyslacki@gmail.com" target="_blank">pavel.tyslacki@gmail.com</a>> wrote:<br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex"><div dir="ltr"><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex">It is the local community that decides (and local can mean a smaller circle of people than every mapper in the country)</blockquote><div><br></div><div>Yep, this way is chosen to allow active mappers with edits in Belarus (have map edits in Belarus at least in different 3 months during last year ~287 contributors) to vote about new convention. Best way we found to do this is to prepare proposal for voting.<br></div></div><br><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr">On Sat, 3 Sept 2022 at 11:53, Martin Koppenhoefer <<a href="mailto:dieterdreist@gmail.com" target="_blank">dieterdreist@gmail.com</a>> wrote:<br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex"><br>
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> On 3 Sep 2022, at 11:53, martianfreeloader <<a href="mailto:martianfreeloader@posteo.net" target="_blank">martianfreeloader@posteo.net</a>> wrote:<br>
> There are many places -- notably bi-/multilingual ones -- where we do not leave the decision to the individual mapper.<br>
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I didn’t say leave it on the individual mapper, the word “individual” referred to the thing that is tagged. It is the local community that decides (and local can mean a smaller circle of people than every mapper in the country)<br>
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