[openstreetmap/openstreetmap-website] Add OpenMapTiles vector map (PR #4042)

AndrewHain notifications at github.com
Sat Sep 30 09:52:45 UTC 2023


> I assume you’re referring to the redundant “Station” suffix everywhere. This is the legacy of Wikidata bootstrapping its labels from Wikipedia (where the suffix is necessary for technical reasons that don’t apply to Wikidata). The issue can be comprehensively fixed in a matter of hours, as [I once did](https://community.openstreetmap.org/t/is-there-support-for-removing-all-name-tags-on-objects-with-a-wikidata-qid-present/8374/8) for place names in one language in many countries. Nevertheless, it highlights the fact that Wikidata is still a work in progress, just like OSM. If this project wants to hold a featured layer’s external data sources to a higher standard than OSM, then that is indeed this project’s prerogative.

Names like “Leeuwarden station” are not intrinsically _wrong_, just unwanted and a hazard of using a project with different ends. A better solution than resorting to Wikidata could be committing to fix weaknesses in our own language names. 

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