[OSM-talk] disputed territories

[Tony Bowden]

Gervase Markham wrote:
> It seems to me that the result we want is to end up with the same name 
> you'd get as if you bought an official map of the country, as issued by 
> e.g. the Tourist Board. But I'm not sure how to word it.

I like that idea. But do the Tourist Board have the authority to issue
an "official" map?

That's a real question: I don't know what "official" means in relation
to a map.

I think in the L/Derry case, national maps would tend to call the city
Londonderry, but local maps would tend to call it Derry. Perhaps that's
an approach we could take: show different names at different zoom
levels. Currently the name first appears at level 6 [1]. By level 10
we're looking at the County rather than the Country, by around 12 we're
mainly the City, and at 15 the name disappears again. Perhaps we could
render Londonderry from 6 through 9 or 10 and Derry at 10 or 11 through 14?

I've no idea of how this would be implemented, but it seems like a nice
approach.

Tony

[1] Bizarrely, Belfast doesn't appear until level 7