[Talk-tr] Mapping battle site Canakkale (Gallipoli), Turkey

[Roman Neumüller]

it should be ok using english names
you could also use name:en tag...

Roman

On Mon, 06 Jan 2014 06:03:54 +0200, Warin <61sundowner at gmail.com> wrote:

> HI,
>
> I've found some Turkish maps of the Canakkale  area  - copyrite expired
> so they should be useable to OSM. They are old .. say 1916? But should
> give information on the historical battlefield. Some of these are  
> Turkish!
> http://www.awm.gov.au/search-awm/collections/?q=G7432.G1+S65&conflict=all&submit=Search
>
>
> Unfortunatly they are presented at 72dpi .. making the finer details
> unreadable.
>
> I've placed a few deatils from one of them .. yet to do more.
>
> Did a little housekeeping in the area  - road ending near roads but not
> joined - joined where bing indicates, ways crossing ways - added nodes
> to make routing possible etc.
>
>
> On Fri, Jan 3, 2014 at 5:57 AM, Warin <61sundowner at gmail.com
> <mailto:61sundowner at gmail.com>> wrote:
>
>     Hi,
>
>     With the forthcoming services at I've taken the trouble of mapping
>     the present memorials (and their associated roads, paths .. in some
>     cases adjacent paths so people don't take the wrong ones) at
>     Canakkale (Gallipoli), Turkey. A few were maped in the south (mainly
>     British, about 4), one road was GPS sourced, other roads looked to
>     be bing tracings. I've tried to get them all (OZ, NZ and Turkish
>     mainly), there maybe a few left (at least 2 I think) but I've not
>     found them with bing.
>
>     The Question?
>     Should I now map the named ridges, gullies etc that were used by
>     'us' (and/or named by 'us') in the action?  These would be historic
>     'English' names e.g. 'second ridge', 'valley of despair', 'cooee
>     gully'. My source for this is copyright .. so I'll need permission
>     from them (or another source). But before I ask for that I'd like an
>     indication that the mapped features would not offend you.
>
>     ------------------------
>     Apologies for the english language, if someone could translate it in
>     to Turkish it would be aprecialted.
>
>     Happy New Year
>
>     Warin.
>
>
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