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

[David Groom]

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From: "Steve Doerr" <doerr.stephen at gmail.com>
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Subject: Re: [OSM-talk] Naming dispute over Jerusalem - OSM failure


>
> 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.
>

This raises another point. Should the node in question have the tag 
"capital=yes" removed, so that the map data reflects what seems to be the 
intentional community consensus [1] ?

If the node is not tagged as the capital, then it may be less of a problem 
how the name actually gets displayed.

David


[1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Positions_on_Jerusalem


> 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
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