[OSM-talk] disputed territories

[Hakan Tandogan]

Gervase Markham wrote:
> Tony Bowden wrote:
>>   Decide what language should be used for names on the map (Serbian or
>>   Albanian). This is a highly political decision, so I am not adding any
>>   names until some policy has been agreed upon.
> 
> Well, presumably they can go ahead and add all the names they like with 
> language tags on? It's just a question about what the untagged version 
> has, i.e. what renders by default.

At least in the case of Cyprus, I'm observing that one of the guys 
repeatedly removed the name:<language> tags. I don't know whether this 
is intentional or because of some restriction of Potlatch, but the edit 
war is still ongoing there :-(

> Doing that would allow them to do a backend change to copy all of one or 
> the other into the untagged "name" once a decision had been made.

Yeah, still assuming that one of the parties manages to retain all of 
the "other" data...



Regards,
Hakan


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