[OSM-talk] disputed territories

[Frederik Ramm]

Hi,

> I'm not sure what you mean. If e.g. a Greek North Cypriot can't cope 
> with the fact that the tr:name is a Turkish name, that's tough, no 
> matter how emotionally hurt he is. If he's going to go around removing 
> them then we need to find a way to stop him - either by disabling his 
> account or other means to be implemented.

I think the problem here is that you assume "something having a name
in a certain language" to be a fact free of politics, something that
everyone in their right mind has to accept.

But in real life, the "fact" that something "has a name in a certain
language" may already be questionable. For example, if Hitler had
invented German names for some Polish cities that he overran, would we
then really want to tag them "name:de=..."?

And I don't like the way this goes, because in the end it would mean
that we'd need some project "institutions" that say which names are
really valid and which aren't, and as a consequence those who remove
"valid" names shall lose their accounts and those who remove "invalid"
names shall be esteemed.

I would be very much in favour of finding a technical solution that
would lead to the situation governing itself. 

And no, I don't have a perfect plan in my drawer ;-)

Bye
Frederik

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