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

[Jo]

2015-05-29 11:41 GMT+02:00 Andy Mabbett <andy at pigsonthewing.org.uk>:

> On 29 May 2015 at 09:57, Arch Arch <7h3.arch at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> > If the foreign name differs from the transliteration I think no one would
> > oppose to add the name into the OSM database.
>
> Then you haven't been paying attention to this thread.
>

The problem is that it's not a transliteration of the characters, that
would be easy. It's a transliteration of a pronunciation with characters
that happen to be familiar to a person speaking one of many languages which
use Latin script.

Polyglot
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