[OSM-talk] maori/english search oddities for nz towns

Tim McNamara paperless at timmcnamara.co.nz
Thu Jul 8 03:36:55 BST 2010


On 8 July 2010 14:29, Robin Paulson <robin.paulson at gmail.com> wrote:

> On 8 July 2010 00:29, Brian Quinion <openstreetmap at brian.quinion.co.uk>
> wrote:
> > 2 Part answer:
> >
> > http://www.openstreetmap.org/browse/relation/556706
> >
> > Aotearoa is used because it is the default name if it can't find a
> > language match.
>
> ah, interesting. that should probably be name:mi
>
> well spotted, i'll change that


"Aotearoa New Zealand" would be a better name, at least in en-NZ [1]. It's a
much more politically correct term than "New Zealand"; we're not Dutch. "New
Zealand" is probably a good global default though.

Tim

[1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/New_Zealand#Etymology
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