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

[Steve Doerr]

On 05/10/2011 16:36, Serge Wroclawski wrote:

> The status of Jerusalem as part of Israel is not disputed. Its status 
> as a Palestinian city is

I'm not sure that's true. Israel was effectively created as a result of 
a UN partition plan that would have created a Jewish state and an Arab 
state, but would have left Jerusalem administered by the UN itself. Even 
now, I believe most countries do not recognize Jerusalem as the capital 
of Israel: most treat Tel Aviv as the capital, presumably to emphasize 
that they don't accept that Jerusalem unambiguously belongs to Israel.

FWIW, the DWG's stance seems reasonable to me, although the obvious 
solution would be to have the two names separated by 'space hyphen 
space' as seems to be the case with Brussels. It would seem reasonable 
to give Hebrew precedence - which ironically would mean the Arabic name 
would be on the left!

-- 
Steve