[OSM-talk] Can wikidata links help fight name inflation?

[Steve Doerr]

On 28/05/2015 10:30, Komяpa wrote:

> http://www.openstreetmap.org/node/286131994 - Slough, GB. 
> Pronounced /ˈslaʊ/, which corresponds to russian "Слау".
> Wiki page http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Slough links to russian 
> https://ru.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D0%A1%D0%BB%D0%B0%D1%83.
> That translation was added in 30451655 and deleted in 30706979.
>
> Automatically translated province in Russian is called Слоф, not Слау:
> https://ru.wargaming.net/globalmap/#province/slough
>  - and we have no way to correct that, if we don't add name:ru for it 
> to OSM.
>

There might be a case for adding pronunciations (of 'difficult' names at 
least) to the OSM database. Someone must have proposed a tagging scheme 
for this, surely?

-- 
Steve


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