<html><head><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=UTF-8"></head><body>Single handedly deleting hundreds of name:ru on nodes without an alternative in place instantly made map less useful.<br><br>-------- Upphafleg skilaboð --------<br>Frá: SomeoneElse <lists@atownsend.org.uk> <br>Dagsetning: 29/05/2015 07:53 (GMT+00:00) <br>Til: talk@openstreetmap.org <br>Efni: Re: [OSM-talk] Can wikidata links help fight name inflation? <br><br>On 29/05/2015 07:07, Andrew Hain wrote:<br>> Thank you Dave. As a British mapper I am ashamed that some people want <br>> to make the map of my country less useful, and not only to Russian <br>> speakers a long way away.<br><br>Hang on, where is _anybody_ saying that? The whole point of the thread <br>is about whether it would be possible to use wikidata to make the map <br>_more_ useful to people who don't speak a particular language, not <br>less. As I said yesterday:<br><br> > It's a perfectly reasonable request for someone to ask "can I have a <br>map that shows place names displayed in<br> > my language / alphabet".<br><br>Cheers,<br><br>Andy<br><br><br>_______________________________________________<br>talk mailing list<br>talk@openstreetmap.org<br>https://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk<br></br></body></html>