[OSM-talk] Wiki cities

Raphael Jacquot sxpert at esitcom.org
Thu May 18 08:08:56 BST 2006


Joerg Ostertag wrote:
> On Thursday 18 May 2006 01:49, Oliver White wrote:
> 
>>Suggestion for a way to make city pages on the wiki without too much
>>editing:
>>
>>http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/index.php/Bedford
>>http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/index.php/Template:Place
> 
> 
> What about using a naming scheme like:
>   City-<country>-<Name-of-City>
>   City-DE-Kirchheim
>   City-UK-Bedford
> or
>   City<Country><Name-of-City>
>   CityDeKirchheim
>   CityUkBedford
> -
> Joerg

that's risking renaming entire swath of the thing whenever an armed 
conflict arises and countries are formed or change names, or piece of 
land previously belonging to country-1 is stolen by country-2




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