[Talk-GB] City names translation

[Ed Loach]

Pavlo wrote:

> I assert that it is "much better" to use a single service, because it 
> is easier to add 100 osm-tags than implement communication with external data sources.
> Nominatim use osm-data, it should not(and I hope will never) use any other 
> data from Wikidata or other projects.

Nominatim already uses data from other sources. See for example
http://www.nominatim.org
which lists the OS Opendata Postcode Centroids (I'm guessing) and two wikipedia related datasets to (I guess) help prioritise results for places where names match.
https://github.com/twain47/Nominatim/tree/master/data
suggests that it also has extra data for US postcodes from TIGER source.

>From all the messages I've seen in this thread, wikidata seems the best solution.

Ed