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<div>Aug 9, 2020, 11:09 by pangose@riseup.net:<br></div><blockquote class="tutanota_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid #93A3B8; padding-left: 10px; margin-left: 5px;"><div>>"there is no such thing as an international name. Names are part of a<br></div><div>>language whih is part of a culture. They are not GIS objects and the <br></div><div>>osm datamodel does not handle this complexity well at all."<br></div><blockquote><br></blockquote><div>>Are you aware that we have other tags beyond name tag?<br></div><div><br></div><div>Yes<br></div></blockquote><div>Then what kind of complexity is not handled by OSM?<br></div><blockquote class="tutanota_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid #93A3B8; padding-left: 10px; margin-left: 5px;"><div>>loc_name, name:pl and many others?<br></div></blockquote><div>That is not handled by already existing tags?<br></div><div>If there is some actual problem then it should be solved.<br></div><div><br></div><blockquote class="tutanota_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid #93A3B8; padding-left: 10px; margin-left: 5px;"><div>>"No more name vandalism in osm. We export the name handling to<br></div><div>>wikidata which has a much better system for handling vandalism."<br></div><blockquote><br></blockquote><div>>Because vandalism in third-party service is superior?<br></div><div>>Are you seriously claiming that Wikidata has less trouble with<br></div><div>>vandalism<br></div><div>>and deals with it better?<br></div><div><br></div><div>Yes. The new york defacement could most probably have been avoided wih this approach. <br></div></blockquote><div>How it would be avoided? <br></div><div>How pulling data from Wikidata would change anything in such case?<br></div> </body>
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