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<br><div>> Arabic *and* Hebrew are the official languages of Israel. You can see <br>> that also the Jerusalem Municipality website is in Arabic and Hebrew (& <br>> English) [1].<br><br>Hebrew is locally considered to be the primary language. While Arabic is also an official one, Hebrew clearly takes precedence.<br><br>The Jerusalem emblem contains the name only in Hebrew.<br>
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Emblem_of_Jerusalem<br>
<br><br>> You didn't explicitely state it but: Do you oppose having <br>> "יְרוּשָׁלַיִם - القُدس" used as the name?<br><br>Yes, I oppose to have a double name because I would like the node to represent the de-facto capital of Israel which is a Jewish state, whose primary language is Hebrew. <br><br>I believe that the current dispute can easily be solved with
introduction of appropriate tags which will clarify any disambiguity. Please consider my proposal outlined below.<br><br>I think what is really missing from current OSM rules is the precise meaning of the tag "capital".<br><br>The dictionary definition is "seat of government", which doesn't consider recognition but is rather a property attached to a city by a state. Still, the issue of recognition is important to many people so OSM should reflect that.<br>Capitals can be de-facto (when the city physically contains the seats of government) or only proclaimed (which is a necessary condition for a city to be called capital in the first place).<br><br>Our situation is as follows:<br><br>1) Jerusalem is a de-facto, not recognized capital of Israel.<br>2) Al-Quds (East Jerusalem) is not de-facto, not recognized capital of Palestine (but capital nevertheless because it was proclaimed so by the PLO). Please note that they explicitly talk about East Jerusalem.<br><br>My proposal therefore includes the introduction of the tags<br>1) "capital:recognized", type:binary, default value: "yes".<br>2) "capital:de-facto", type:binary, default value: "yes". <br><br>There will be two nodes:<br><br>Node 1:<br>------------<br>name=ירושלים<br>name:en=Jerusalem<br>....<br>place=city<br>capital=yes<br>is_in=Israel<br>capital:recognized=no<br>capital:de-facto=yes<br><br>The node will be placed west of the 1949 armistice line and west of the Old City of Jerusalem.<br><br>Node 2:<br>------------<br>name=القُدس<br>name:en=East Jerusalem<br>place=city<br>capital=yes<br>is_in=Palestine?(will be chosen by the local community there)<br>capital:recognized=no<br>capital:de-facto=no<br><br>The node will be placed east of the 1949 armistice line and east of the Old City of Jerusalem.<br><br>Please note that this will be in accordance with Wikipedia articles on Jerusalem, East Jerusalem, and Israel. I think Wikipedia in this case represents an important source because they are driven by consensus, similar to OSM. In fact, they had lengthy discussions about the topic[1,2]:<br><br><br>[1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Talk:Jerusalem/capital<br>[2] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia_talk:WikiProject_Israel_Palestine_Collaboration/Discussion_archive/Jerusalem_as_capital<br><br><br></div> </div></body>
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