[OSM-talk] Advice needed - dispute regarding names in Cyprus

[Steve Coast]

Is anyone aware of an edit war before this? If not, this is our first  
edit war :-)


On 9 Nov 2007, at 13:11, David Janda wrote:

>
>> I always thought that "name" should be the name that is used by the  
>> people
> living in the actual location...
>
> So did I, after all, anyone using OSM in the area I am living in to  
> navigate
> will not see the Greek names signposted anywhere.
>
>> Please use "name:el=Kazaphani", the :gr was my mistake.
>
> Have done so.
>
>> Welcome to the ugly world of politics. I still hope that the other  
>> guy
> will be mature about this and realize that we are > building a map  
> and don't
> express our political views :-(
>
> Agreed. But user_7363 is still overwriting the primary name with the  
> Greek
> one using Poltach. Is there a way to contact them?
>
>> By the way, the Node
>> http://www.openstreetmap.org/api/0.5/node/103661731/history , which  
>> is the
> only place node I can find in that area, has > > only your changes.  
> Does the
> other guy delete your place nodes and create fresh ones?
>
> On occasion, yes.
>
>
>
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have fun,

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