<div dir="ltr">This thread is already too long (though Fred's contribution was a classic). <div><br></div><div>If people want to add transliterations (or genuinely different names) by hand, then let them. As long as no-one starts doing mass automated transliterations, then it doesn't matter very much.</div>
<div><br></div><div>Richard (M)</div></div><div class="gmail_extra"><br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Tue, Aug 5, 2014 at 12:00 PM, Pavlo Dudka <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:pavlo.dudka@gmail.com" target="_blank">pavlo.dudka@gmail.com</a>></span> wrote:<br>
<blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><div dir="ltr"><div><div><div><div><div>I assert that it is "much better" to use a single service, because it is easier to add 100 osm-tags than implement communication with external data sources.<br>
</div>Nominatim use osm-data, it should not(and I hope will never) use any other data from Wikidata or other projects.<br>
</div>Mapnik allows to process .osm data without using any external data sources.<br>There is also nice project "Multilingual Map" created as part of Multilingual maps wikipedia project(<a href="http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Multilingual_maps_wikipedia_project" target="_blank">http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Multilingual_maps_wikipedia_project</a>). <br>
Can any of this services be easily modified to use Wikidata? No.<br><br>I don't ask anyone to waste his time to modify UK place-nodes. That's how I want to spend my own time. But I want to be sure that SomeoneElse_Revert or someone else will not revert my changes.<br>
</div><div><div><div><br></div><div>OSM-community tries to avoid any imports. I would like to check all cities one by one. I will check its spelling in ukrainian spelling dictionary, wikipedia, web articles.<br></div><div>
<div><div><div><div class="gmail_extra"><br>Note, half of UK cities don't have any reference to Wikipedia. <br><a href="http://overpass-turbo.eu/?Q=node[%22is_in:country%22=%22United%20Kingdom%22][%22place%22=%22city%22][%22wikipedia%22!~%22.*%22];out%3B&R" target="_blank">http://overpass-turbo.eu/?Q=node[%22is_in:country%22=%22United%20Kingdom%22][%22place%22=%22city%22][%22wikipedia%22!~%22.*%22];out%3B&R</a><br>
I can fill them too while adding name:uk=*.<br><br><br><div class="gmail_quote">2014-08-05 12:42 GMT+03:00 Andy Mabbett <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:andy@pigsonthewing.org.uk" target="_blank">andy@pigsonthewing.org.uk</a>></span>:<br>
<blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex"><div>> Not, it is not a job for external services. It is much better to use single<br>
> service(OSM) rather than multiple(OSM+Wikidata).<br>
> OpenStreetMap supports multiple names - let's use it. If you don't like<br>
> someone use some tags - just ignore those tags.<br>
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</div>You assert that it is "much better" to sue a dingle service, rather<br>
than using linked open data as it is meant to be used; but you present<br>
no argument for that assertion.<br>
<br>
It is ot a case of "not liking" some tags, but of not wanting to<br>
squander vouneteer hours repeating work that has already been done -<br>
effectively and better - elsewhere.<br>
<br>
Even were your assertion true, the data is, in many cases, already in<br>
Wikidata and freely available for import.<span class="HOEnZb"><font color="#888888"><br>
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--<br>
Andy Mabbett<br>
@pigsonthewing<br>
<a href="http://pigsonthewing.org.uk" target="_blank">http://pigsonthewing.org.uk</a><br>
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