[Talk-GB] City names translation

[Lester Caine]

On 05/08/14 08:06, Pavlo Dudka wrote:
> It seems that the only place not allowed for adding name:** is UK.
> That's why I started this discussion here. Should we discuss it
> internationaly?
> 
> 2014-08-05 2:37 GMT+03:00 Lester Caine <lester at lsces.co.uk
> <mailto:lester at lsces.co.uk>>:
> 
>     On 05/08/14 00:11, Richard Fairhurst wrote:
>     > Andrew Hain wrote:
>     >> > It was only put in recently and I personally find it unhelpful.
>     Would
>     >> > anyone object to removing it?
>     > Yes.
>     Ditto ... The alternate name tagging is designed where there are
>     alternate names in other languages. Simply writing a name in a different
>     alphabet is something that the renderer can do if required.
> 
>     But this is a discussion for the international list rather than just
>     the UK?

Discussing a guide line set up internationally on a local list is what I
was commenting on. Certainly removing one requires discussion. But like
many areas of the data process, personally I'd prefer that the secondary
data was in a secondary database, but then I had thought geonames
provided translations :(

http://translationjournal.net/journal/28names.htm recommends translation
of places where there is not a specific translation then the local
language is retained. I suppose all I am looking at is finding locations
on-line that I recognise, If there is a translation dictionary on-line
for every place name into Chinese and Chinese literature uses those
names, then on paper fine, every 'translation' should be copied to OSM?
It's this overload of material that I feel is wrong when there SHOULD be
some other means of identifying the translation. If there is NOT a
documented translation of a name, then it should not be invented, which
is basically I think what the guide line was trying to avoid? We do not
want to become the 'primary' source of translations, only reflecting
what is ALREADY documented elsewhere.

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