[Tagging] Can OSM become a geospacial database?

[Sergio Manzi]

That's (/quite obviously I would say.../) not a solution: all it does is to move the problem from one place to another: how would you make up the name for one of yoursпруд or копанка in English?


On 2018-12-06 12:51, Eugene Podshivalov wrote:
> Another solution is to always put category name into "name" field. "Paris" would become "City of Paris" or "Paris city".
> And the renderers will need to decide how to cut the category word from some names in order not to display then on the map or another ready-to-use tag will need to be inroduce which would contain just "Paris" in it.
>
> чт, 6 дек. 2018 г. в 13:52, Simon Poole <simon at poole.ch <mailto:simon at poole.ch>>:
>
>     Just to inject a bit of OT here
>
>     - the EN name of the Vierwaldstättersee is Lake Lucerne
>
>     - the literal translation is "lake of the four forest settlements" (only
>     loosely related to the notion of cantons)
>
>     In both cases naming the lake  "Lucerne" or "Vierwaldstätten" would
>     obviously be nonsense.
>
>     Simon
>
>     Am 05.12.2018 um 19:55 schrieb marc marc:
>     > Le 05. 12. 18 à 19:36, Eugene Podshivalov a écrit :
>     >> The name tag is abused very often and systematically. 
>     >> https://www.openstreetmap.org/#map=18/48.86138/2.36028
>     > just because a hotel's name contains the word hotel does not necessarily
>     > mean it is a false name. Some names are "hotêl abc" and not "abc"
>     >
>     > the same for the lakes.
>     > the lake near Geneva (France/Switzerland) is indeed called "Léman"
>     > and it is a tautology (an error) to say Lake Léman.
>     > But the "lake of the 4 cantons" in Switzerland is called the "lake of
>     > the 4 cantons". If you ask someone where "of the 4 cantons" are located,
>     > he don't understand what you're talking about because that not its name.
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