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

[David Groom]

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Lambert Carsten" <lhc.osm at solcon.nl>
To: <talk at openstreetmap.org>
Sent: Wednesday, October 05, 2011 6:07 PM
Subject: Re: [OSM-talk] Naming dispute over Jerusalem - OSM failure


>
> On Wed, 5 Oct 2011 11:39:16 -0400
> Serge Wroclawski <emacsen at gmail.com> wrote:
>
>> On Wed, Oct 5, 2011 at 11:30 AM, Pieren <pieren3 at gmail.com> wrote:
>> > On Wed, Oct 5, 2011 at 3:52 PM, Serge Wroclawski
>> > <emacsen at gmail.com> wrote:
>
>> I said that you can't get consensus from idle accounts.
>>
>> > I like David's idea with the specific tag "name:disputed".
>>
>> The status of Jerusalem as part of Israel is not disputed except by
>> the same sort of people who might say that London is not the capital
>> of the UK.
>>
>> The fact that some people don't like the situation doesn't change
>> that.
>>
>> A "disputed" tag will result in many things being marked disputed. I
>> can think of a bunch even in the US.
>
> I have to agree here. It also doesn't solve disputes about what is
> disputed.

But I think we have to recognise that there are some genuine disputes, and 
at the end of the day we are a provider of mapping data, not a dispute 
resolution service.

David

> In other words it doesn't force parties to agree to disagree.
> And rightly so, sometimes (rarely I'll admit) people can be mistaken. :)
>


> Lambert Carsten