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

[Jóhannes Birgir Jensson]

Single handedly deleting hundreds of name:ru on nodes without an alternative in place instantly made map less useful.

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Dagsetning: 29/05/2015  07:53  (GMT+00:00) 
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Efni: Re: [OSM-talk] Can wikidata links help fight name inflation? 

On 29/05/2015 07:07, Andrew Hain wrote:
> 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.

Hang on, where is _anybody_ saying that?  The whole point of the thread 
is about whether it would be possible to use wikidata to make the map 
_more_ useful to people who don't speak a particular language, not 
less.  As I said yesterday:

 > It's a perfectly reasonable request for someone to ask "can I have a 
map that shows place names displayed in
 > my language / alphabet".

Cheers,

Andy


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