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

[Clifford Snow]

On Thu, May 28, 2015 at 1:27 PM, Dave Corley <davecorley at gmail.com> wrote:

> On the first point, why not? There are maps of the world in English,
> French, German etc etc. I see no logical reason to object to "certain"
> languages being used in the name tag. That is the whole point of the
> flexibility of that tag. The scale of usage is null and void. Either its
> acceptable everywhere or its acceptable nowhere. Anything in between is
> entirely subjective and completely unfair.
>
> On the second point, since when do we care about the motivation about why
> certain data gets added. If someone wants to add 3d tagging to utilise in a
> 3d map they are creating, do we nitpick about that? If Scout adds speed
> limits to make their app more effective, do we complain?
>
> Lastly, and I think this is important point. To quote the wiki header
> "..... the project that creates and distributes free geographic data for
> the world." Either this is a database of worldwide geodata or its not.
> There's no half-way in that statement. Either all cultures, languages,
> countries, people and the variety these elements bring in terms of tagging,
> is accepted on a universal basis or its not.
>
> If its not, then that's an entirely different conversation.
>

+1



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