[talk-au] Mapping Indigenous Place Names
Warin
61sundowner at gmail.com
Sat Jan 27 05:08:56 UTC 2018
There can be problems with internet connectivity for remote communities
.. so getting participation can be difficult.
A local dump of data that can then be used on a server by others can be
very beneficial - reduces the remote network load and speeds the locals
response times.
Part of 'verifiable on the round' is asking a local.. if it is a local
doing the mapping then they are most of the way there.
The OSMwiki for local languages ..is
https://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Multilingual_names
On 27-Jan-18 03:08 PM, David Dean wrote:
> Oh,
>
> And one more thing: At its best OpenStreetMap is about local mappers
> mapping what is of interest to them, so we should be attempting to
> engage with out local indigenous community and asking them what their
> local language is and what features in OSM (or that we can add to OSM)
> are important to them.
>
> Some of this might stretch the 'verifiable on the ground' rule a
> little, but I think if there is significant local knowledge, it is
> fair game for the map.
>
> - David
>
> On Sat, 27 Jan 2018 at 14:03 David Dean <ddean at ieee.org
> <mailto:ddean at ieee.org>> wrote:
>
> Hey everyone,
>
> Thanks for the great responses. I'm glad I kicked off this thread.
>
> I don't think there is a problem with indicating a name:aus tag if
> the local aboriginal name for an area/feature is known, but you
> haven't done further research to find the actual language code
> applicable.
>
> However, it should be a goal to update all name:aus tags to move
> them to the appropriate real tags based on the iso639-3 tags. I'm
> not sure at that stage whether the name:aus tags would be useful
> to stay or not. Any ideas?
>
> I am pushing this myself, as I want to build a rendering of OSM
> that is focused on the local indigenous knowledge across the
> country, but I guess this means I'm going to need to do a bit more
> work to find out the iso639-3 tags for all indigenous languages in
> Australia, and maybe even some idea of what tags are local to what
> areas.
>
> This is clearly not going to be trivial, but what that's worth
> doing is? :)
>
> - David
>
> On Sat, 27 Jan 2018 at 08:45 Andrew Harvey
> <andrew.harvey4 at gmail.com <mailto:andrew.harvey4 at gmail.com>> wrote:
>
> On 26 January 2018 at 23:33, David Dean <ddean at ieee.org
> <mailto:ddean at ieee.org>> wrote:
>
> Absolutely. If the more specific language code is known,
> it should be used.
>
>
> Indeed Tasmania uses a lot of name:xtz eg.
> http://www.openstreetmap.org/node/123026960 and
> https://overpass-turbo.eu/s/vql, Uluru uses name:pjt,
> hopefully there are a lot more. I think name:aus should only
> really be used if you don't know which more specific ISO code
> to use.
>
> On 27 January 2018 at 07:53, Warin <61sundowner at gmail.com
> <mailto:61sundowner at gmail.com>> wrote:
>
> Should the English language ones be recorded as
> name:eng=Ayers Rock ?
>
> I think they may be entered as alt_name, possibly they
> also should be recorded as name:eng too (a duplication).
>
>
> name:eng and name:en are the same thing according to
> https://www.loc.gov/standards/iso639-2/php/langcodes_name.php?code_ID=130
>
> The English name of Uluru is Uluru not Ayers Rock. I'd be in
> favour of moving Ayers Rock to the old name. official_name
> could still be "Uluru / Ayers Rock" as that's what's it's
> officially designated as.
>
> I'd prefer we didn't use name=Uluru (Ayers Rocks) and instead
> just used name=Uluru as it should be left up to data consumers
> how they want to display alternate names, with Ayers Rock
> either as old_name or alt_name.
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