[OSM-talk] Can wikidata links help fight name inflation?
Andrew Hain
andrewhainosm at hotmail.co.uk
Fri May 29 06:07:41 UTC 2015
Dave Corley <davecorley <at> gmail.com> writes:
> 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.
Thank you Dave. As a British mapper I am ashamed that some people want to
make the map of my country less useful, and not only to Russian speakers a
long way away.
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Andrew
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