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<body style="overflow-wrap:break-word; word-break: break-word;"><div class="mail_android_message" style="line-height: 1; padding: 0.5em">I agree that it is interesting to know what the street name means, but there is no ground truth for it.<br/><br/>Anne<br/><br/>--<br/>Sent from my Android phone with <a href="http://WEB.DE">WEB.DE</a> Mail. Please excuse my brevity.</div><div class="mail_android_quote" style="line-height: 1; padding: 0.3em"><html><body>On 19/09/2022, 11:42 "Janko Mihelić" <janjko@gmail.com> wrote:</body></html><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin: 0.8ex 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); padding-left: 1ex;">
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A user in my city (Zagreb) started translating street names into English, and I don't know what to do about it. An example of translation is Butcher Street for Mesnička ulica, or Stone Street for Kamenita ulica. I found a few of these in Berlin, for example,<span class="gmail-is-family-monospace"> Straße der Erinnerung translated</span><span class="gmail-is-family-monospace"> Road of Remembrance</span>. These are valid translations, but it isn't helpful for a map. If an english user of our map saw "Road of Remembrance", she won't be able to find that street sign, or explain to a taxi driver where she wants to go.
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I think I've seen someone talk against such translations, but I can't find a wiki page that talks about it. I can create one if there is consensus that this is wrong tagging. Or maybe just add a few sentences about it on the name=* wiki page.
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The problem is, he is doing valid work, so it feels wrong to just delete it. Another way to deal with this is to create a new tag, name:literal_translation:en=* or just literal_translation:en=*.
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Another question, what is the right name:en=* in these cases, or is there none? Erinnerung Road?
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Thanks!
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Janko Mihelić
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