[OSM-talk] Military objects in RU: warning about status of voting

[Lester Caine]

Kirill Bestoujev wrote:
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> 2010/4/15 Lester Caine <lester at lsces.co.uk <mailto:lester at lsces.co.uk>>
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>     Of cause what is missing here is that since this 'vote' was only in
>     Russian then
>     the vast majority of us would not even be able to vote anyway. There
>     should
>     perhaps be a rule about needing all votes to carry an English
>     translation, since
>     the consensus IS that all tagging is carried out IN English. Getting
>     changes to
>     the main tagging pages would have to be in English anyway? So is
>     there any
>     validity to this vote anyway? The main definition of landuse should
>     follow the
>     international standards, and that includes 'military' as a basic
>     definition anyway.
>
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> We have mappers in many countries, some of them do not speak English. I
> think that any voting should contain translations to all languages used
> in OSM (at least to those, that are use in osm-wiki

Ideally YES, but at least if there is an English version of a proposal, it makes 
it a lot easier for other translations to be created as necessary. A 'free for 
all' on translations will just create a mess, but translating from a base of 
English at least means that any disagreement on the 'translation' is manageable. 
Translating pages through several other languages is only going to produce 
confusion when things get miss interpreted?

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