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<div class="moz-cite-prefix">Le 26/02/2016 10:16, Martin
Koppenhoefer a écrit :<br>
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<div class="gmail_quote">2016-02-26 10:05 GMT+01:00
Jean-Guilhem Cailton <span dir="ltr"><<a
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<div class="">> are these names English or fiji or
hindi?<br>
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> cheers<br>
> Martin<br>
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They are "name" found in reports from Fijian officials or
medias - that<br>
apparently use English, an official language in Fiji (I
haven't seen<br>
Fijian news reports in other languages - yet) - and often
found in the<br>
"name" tag in OSM in Fiji. And in 1944 US topo maps for
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I find it problematic to make remote edits based on foreign
maps and add names in a foreign language as main names,
although because of colonization this foreign language is
apparently used as lingua franca. I see this as kind of
ungoing colonization, where I'd actually expect people use
names in their first language to refer to the places they
live. From a quick internet search it appears that English
isn't the first language for a vast majority of people living
in Fiji. My suggestion is to use the tags name:en and
old_name:en for names and old names in English.<br>
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<div class="gmail_extra">Cheers,<br>
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<div class="gmail_extra">Martin<br>
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<br>
Apparently your point of view about "ungoing colonization" is not
shared by Fidjian officials, news media, nor by OSM mappers of Fiji
so far.<br>
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Best regards,<br>
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Jean-Guilhem<br>
<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="https://twitter.com/jgvisov">https://twitter.com/jgvisov</a><br>
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<div class="moz-signature">-- <br>
"On ne m’ôtera pas de l’idée que, pendant la dernière guerre
mondiale, de nombreux juifs ont eu une attitude carrément hostile
à l’égard du régime nazi." Pierre Desproges<br>
"I won't be deprived of the idea that, during the last world war,
many Jews had a downright hostile attitude toward the Nazi
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