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

[SomeoneElse]

On 28/05/2015 11:20, Iván Sánchez Ortega wrote:
> El Jueves 28. mayo 2015 10.59.21 Steve Doerr escribió:
>> 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?
> Yup. https://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Proposed_features/Phonetics
>
>

"name:pronunciation", as mentioned on that page, is in use in a few 
problems, and would surely solve the "Slough" problem:

http://www.openstreetmap.org/node/10021975/history

(though John Betjeman's idea might have been better)

Cheers,

Andy