[OSM-talk] On the ground rule on the wiki

[Anthony]

On Sun, May 30, 2010 at 3:40 AM, John Smith <deltafoxtrot256 at gmail.com>wrote:

> On 30 May 2010 15:39, Anthony <osm at inbox.org> wrote:
> > "If the dispute can not be resolved through discussion, then the simple
> > default rule is that whatever name, designation, etc are used by the
> people
> > on the ground at that location are used in the non-localized tags."
>
> Isn't that kinda asking for an edit war where there is disputed
> territory with different names by different languages possibly in
> multiple languages?
>

>From what I can tell, it was actually the solution to such an edit war.  How
"map what the people on the ground say" turned into "map what's on the
ground", I can't figure out.
-------------- next part --------------
An HTML attachment was scrubbed...
URL: <http://lists.openstreetmap.org/pipermail/talk/attachments/20100530/f0969784/attachment.html>