[Talk-kosovo] [OpenStreetMap Serbia] Pedja changing names to serbian cyrillic

Mike Dupont jamesmikedupont at googlemail.com
Wed Mar 28 16:44:28 BST 2012


Thats great news, I am glad we can work this out.
mike

On Wed, Mar 28, 2012 at 5:41 PM, Dragutin Cvetkovic
<drazha at maildrome.com> wrote:
> Hello all,
>
> First off, allow me to apologize for this mishap: rest assured it is a
> mishap and nothing more than that.
>
> We are developing some software that has a task to bring the naming of
> various toponyms back into a certain, agreed format.
>
> This agreed format does in fact take into account the rule of the
> majority, so even in that respect the name:sq tag should be default
> value for the name tag for environments where the majority speaks the
> language.
>
> Be that as it may, since there is a political situation surrounding
> the Kosovo territory, the general consensus on "our" side of the
> equation is that Kosovo should be left outside of our activities, and
> I guess when we do decide that we would want to enact certain changes,
> that we will inform you of such intentions, and discuss these at such
> time.
>
> I will see if we can revoke the changes made ourselves, if not,
> apologies for the damage done and extra work required to sort this
> out.
>
> Best regards,
> --Dragutin Cvetkovic
>
>
> On Wed, Mar 28, 2012 at 3:50 PM, Mike  Dupont
> <jamesmikedupont at googlemail.com> wrote:
>> On Wed, Mar 28, 2012 at 4:47 PM, Altin Ukshini <altin.ukshini at gmail.com> wrote:
>>> We can't monitor/administer the map everyday because we don't even have
>>> enough people contributing in OSM and Serbians are using this opportunity to
>>> change whatever they want in the map.
>>
>> Well I think we are going to have to setup some tools to monitor
>> renaming and changing of borders etc. Someone will have to monitor
>> this, we have to.
>> mike
>>
>>
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>> James Michael DuPont
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