[OSM-talk] Naming dispute over Jerusalem - OSM failure

[Russ Nelson]

Please forgive if I cut Dimka's email down to two sentences.

dimka israeli writes:
 > Three months ago, several people who never before made edits to OSM, claimed that they cannot identify themselves with the map (and as a result, are not ready to contribute to it), because the name of the city of Jerusalem did not appear on the main OSM site in Arabic language with the same prominence as the Hebrew one.

 > (they actually made no edits in OSM since then).

Entirely leaving out the politics of the situation, it seems here that
something has been given up in exchange for ... nothing. If they
haven't edited in three months, it's clear that they never intended to
edit in the first place. I'd say to put it back and let the whining
resume ... only negotiate better next time.

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