[OSM-talk] Jerusalem name tag - Mediation

[Ian]

Can we take a step back and view this in the context of other discussions 
about the viability of a map directly on http://openstreetmap.org/? As a 
community we've become more sensitive to the fact that visitors coming to 
openstreetmap will see the map and think that the project is meant to create 
a replacement for maps.google.com (the search product) when in fact we are 
here to create map *data* for the world. The slippy map sitting at 
openstreetmap.org is a tool to achieve that goal, not the end goal itself.

Any discussion over any particular piece of the default Mapnik rendering 
should be tempered with that in mind. The data can be (and has been) changed 
to reflect the dispute over the "official" or "default" name for the node. 
The fact that the map on osm.org happens to render that node in a particular 
way does not mean we need to change anything. If a community doesn't like 
the way osm.org displays the data, they are free to set up their own 
rendering that displays the data in a manner of their pleasing (including 
showing a particular language's name tag before defaulting to the generic 
name tag).
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