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

[Erik Johansson]

2011/10/7 dimka israeli <dimka.israel at hotmail.co.il>:
> < br>2. The people we met clearly did not regard themselves as being
> Israeli, and referred to East Jerusalem as "their capital". Therefore I
> assume that tagging "Al-Quds" as "capital=yes" and "is_in=Israel" (or
> equivalently part of the relation "Israel") will not be acceptable for the
> other side (but I would be very glad to hear their opinion on this). On the
> other hand, "capital=yes" and "is_in=Palestine" or is_in nothing would be
> purposefully misleading. A dual Hebrew-Arabic name on a single node, tagged
> as capital=yes, appearing on the "semi-official" main OSM site, say on
> zoomlevel 7, would probably suggest to a causual viewer that it is a joined
> capital of two states and not mixed-population Israeli city (like Haifa or
> Yaffo).


The best solution to this is to make both parties pissed of, because
no one seems to like to compromise.


The "international" fact is that State of Palestine wants it's capital
to be Jerusalem, and that almost no one recognize Jerusalem as the
capital of Israel. Wonderful right. :-(

Anyway most people seems to agree that doing  name=hebrew/arabic is
ok. I think you should remove capital=yes, and is_in=* as well. You
can still be inside the administrative borders relations that
nominatim uses. Is that to kind to the people that want a State of
Palestine?

So
name=hebrew/arabic
remove: capital=yes
remove: is_in*

-- 
/emj