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<p>As already has been pointed out nobody is even remotely proposing
to limit adding actual real names, quite the contrary. <br>
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<p>It just needs to be understood that most places and objects don't
actually have names in more than one language or transliterations
that are special (aka not machine generated). As already pointed
out take the name of the place which I happen to live in, WD has
26 name entries of which 24 are rubbish and 1 doubtful, the most
likely generated from the WP page urls (and a number of those
pages are bot generated). A classic example of GIGO.</p>
<p>Simon<br>
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<div class="moz-cite-prefix">Am 30.06.2018 um 10:32 schrieb Andrew
Hain:<br>
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One of OSM’s strengths is, or should be, that we are a truly
worldwide map. Multilingual names are part of this. Excluding
actual names from the map database as “ought not” is no different
from omitting casinos in a stand against gambling or leaving the
road number of the high street in your town off the map.<br>
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It is unfortunate that a few people have sought to limit the
contribution of names by our mappers.<br>
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--<br>
Andrew
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face="Calibri, sans-serif" color="#000000"><b>From:</b> Andy
Mabbett <a class="moz-txt-link-rfc2396E" href="mailto:andy@pigsonthewing.org.uk"><andy@pigsonthewing.org.uk></a><br>
<b>Sent:</b> 29 June 2018 12:21:06<br>
<b>To:</b> OSM talk mailing list<br>
<b>Subject:</b> Re: [OSM-talk] WMF: "Interactive maps, now in
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<div class="PlainText">On 29 June 2018 at 11:57, Simon Poole
<a class="moz-txt-link-rfc2396E" href="mailto:simon@poole.ch"><simon@poole.ch></a> wrote:<br>
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>> On 29.06.2018 12:18, Andy Mabbett wrote:<br>
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>>> New Wikimedia Foundation blog post:<br>
>>><br>
>>><br>
>>> <a
href="https://blog.wikimedia.org/2018/06/28/interactive-maps-now-in-your-language/"
moz-do-not-send="true">
https://blog.wikimedia.org/2018/06/28/interactive-maps-now-in-your-language/</a><br>
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> they should not be calling for their users to
vandalize OSM.<br>
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Nor are they.<br>
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I expected some negativity in response to this remarkable
good news;<br>
but this hyperbolic response is beyond acceptable.<br>
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-- <br>
Andy Mabbett<br>
@pigsonthewing<br>
<a href="http://pigsonthewing.org.uk"
moz-do-not-send="true">http://pigsonthewing.org.uk</a><br>
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