[Tagging] Literal translation of street names

[Niels Elgaard Larsen]

Janko Mihelić:
> A user in my city (Zagreb) started translating street names into English, and I don't 
> know what to do about it.

Start by writing a comment on the changeset.

> An example of translation is Butcher Street for Mesnička 
> ulica, or Stone Street for Kamenita ulica. I found a few of these in Berlin, for 
> example,Straße der Erinnerung translatedRoad of Remembrance. These are valid 
> translations, but it isn't helpful for a map. If an english user of our map saw "Road 
> of Remembrance", she won't be able to find that street sign, or explain to a taxi 
> driver where she wants to go.


Yeah, we had similar issues in Copenhagen.

Eg translating Bredgade as
de:Breite Straße and
en:Broad Street


I did an overpass turbo search.

"The circle bridge"
https://www.openstreetmap.org/way/338137146
might be OK, although every English source in the Wikipedia article refers to it by 
its danish name "Cirkelbroen".


But I am a bit skeptical of "The Bicycle Snake"
https://www.openstreetmap.org/way/290045953
The OSM user also created an English Wikipedia article by the same name.

But the name is a pun on the Danish word "slange" that can mean both snake and tube 
and as a verb, "to wind".

The Danish name "cykelslangen" translates as "bicycle inner tube" if you are not 
trying to be funny.



> I think I've seen someone talk against such translations, but I can't find a wiki 
> page that talks about it. I can create one if there is consensus that this is wrong 
> tagging. Or maybe just add a few sentences about it on the name=* wiki page.
> 
> The problem is, he is doing valid work, so it feels wrong to just delete it. Another 
> way to deal with this is to create a new tag, name:literal_translation:en=* or just 
> literal_translation:en=*.
> 
> Another question, what is the right name:en=* in these cases, or is there none? 

There is none.
We would not want to have hundreds of name:CC tags with identical values for every 
single piece of road.


> Erinnerung Road?
> 
> Thanks!
> Janko Mihelić
> 
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Niels Elgaard Larsen