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

[Nick Whitelegg]

Exactly. Us Western Europeans would find Romanised versions of names useful when travelling out of Western Europe (to give a real example: I'm visiting Greece this summer, and while I'm just about at the stage where I think I can decode the Greek alphabet, Romanised versions are definitely helpful), and the converse should also be true.

You don't even need on the ground evidence. You just need someone with knowledge of Cyrillic and Roman alphabets to be able to transliterate Abergavenny into the Cyrillic, presumably.

Nick

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From: Andrew Hain <andrewhainosm at hotmail.co.uk>
Sent: 29 May 2015 07:07
To: talk at openstreetmap.org
Subject: Re: [OSM-talk] Can wikidata links help fight name inflation?

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.

--
Andrew
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