[Talk-GB] City names translation

[SK53]

Thanks for a brilliant example.

Just want to point out that wikipedia is not exempt from this, I had great
difficulty findin a wikipedia:en article about the Haut Fagnes after
reading Cristoph Eckert's fine blog post
<http://www.christeck.de/wp/2014/07/15/auf-dem-dach-belgiens/>, the only
way to find it was to search wikipedia:fr and then click on the English
Language article to find it called "High Fens
<http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/High_Fens>". Similarly the Erzgebirge appear
as the Ore Mountains. In both cases this is to apparently avoid some
language sensibilities (which are either overstated or could have easily
been managed with a suitable redirect).

I look forward to seeing:

name:fr=Colonie du peuple de Snot
name:de=Siedlung des Volkes von Rotz

and so on *ad nauseum*
....

On a more serious note, there is (or perhaps, more accurately, was) a
substantial Ukrainian diaspora in the United Kingdom. For instance there is
a Ukrainian social club <http://www.augb.co.uk/nottingham.php> and church
in Nottingham. It would be interesting to find out what the typical usage
is within this diaspora.

Jerry


On 5 August 2014 00:38, Frederik Ramm <frederik at remote.org> wrote:

> Hi,
>
> On 08/04/2014 08:23 PM, SomeoneElse wrote:
> > To duplicate every name in OSM in every language (or even every
> > alphabet) is clearly ridiculous - and the "but it's only for cities"
> > argument is also not a good one, since what is done for cities will next
> > be done for towns, villages, village shops, everything.
>
> I agree with that and I have often tried to make the point that the
> "name" tag should be reserved for situations in which something really
> has a certain distinct name in the given language.
>
> http://www.openstreetmap.org/way/53574164 - if I visit Pont Neuf will
> there be a sign in English explaining to me that this building is called
> "New Bridge"? Will I meet native English speakers who tell me they've
> been to "New Bridge" in Paris (the same way they will say that they have
> been to "Munich")?
>
> No? Then what on earth does the name:en tag do on that object. Of course
> the other name:xx tags aren't any better as a far as I can judge. The
> only reason I haven't yet blown these tags to pieces is that I can
> occasionally use them in rants like this.
>
> Bye
> Frederik
>
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