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

[Frederik Ramm]

Hi,

On 05/28/2015 08:53 PM, Jóhannes Birgir Jensson wrote:
> As an example Botswana has English as an official language and Setswana
> as the overwhelming majority language. However it also has 20 smaller
> languages, some of them shared with neighboring nations and some very
> small local ones. Those languages already fight for their existence as
> the English names are given to their villages on official maps, with
> maybe the local in a footnote. Using OSM we can present them with maps
> of their own homes in their own languages.

That's something I would support.

What I would not support in OSM, and like to outsource to Wikidata or
other, is if speakers of these 20 languages were to start assigning name
tags in their language to thousands of places in, say, the UK.

Bye
Frederik

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