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

[bvh]

On Fri, Nov 09, 2007 at 10:08:24AM +0100, Martijn van Oosterhout wrote:
> > I hate to say this, but it is a sensitive issue and politics are at hand
> > here!
> The only way you're going to get out of this is by talking to the
> person doing it. Come to a compromise, no amount of adjudication is
> going to solve your problem here...

I don't think that is a helpfull advise. There are some spots in
the world (and this island is one of them) where there is no agreement
on the status of certain areas. And maybe you can find
individuals from both sides who are willing to agree, an open
project like OpenStreetMap will always attract people who are not
going to agree.

So I think we need to have some official workaround here.

The only workeable solution will be to in the end not show any names
by default for certain areas until the user has selected a
language/political preference. Bonus points if that choice is
partly automated (looking at the http headers and what not)

cu bart