[Talk-GB] City names translation

[SomeoneElse]

On 05/08/2014 08:11, Pavlo Dudka wrote:
> I will use my own knowledge obtained on school lessons of history, 
> geography and English. Large cities are worldwide-known.

OK...

> I will be right saying that I can not know all cities, especially 
> small. I will search ukrainian web articles to see if there is 
> determined translation english-to-ukrainian for them.

That's rather more problematical.  Under what licence are those web 
articles published?  How do you know that the translation is accurate, 
and not a poor transliteration (like the Bury St Edmunds example)?  How 
does another mapper verify(1) that the name is correct?

Cheers,

Andy

(1) http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Verifiability