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

[Maarten Deen]

On 2015-05-29 13:34, SomeoneElse wrote:
> On 29/05/2015 12:14, moltonel 3x Combo wrote:
>> On 29/05/2015, SomeoneElse <lists at atownsend.org.uk> wrote:
>>> how do we distinguish in the Abergavenny case between the two
>>> established names and the "up to 7,000" (but realistically in the 
>>> short
>>> term a few hundred) translations?  That's unfortunately something 
>>> that
>>> name:xx in OSM doesn't give us currently
>> You don't distinguish them, and that's fine. There may be many many
>> more pleople using "Abergavenny" than "Абергавенни", but that doesn't
>> mean that the name isn't established, at its more limited scale.
> 
> 
> I'd say that whether or not a name is actually usable to help navigate
> to a place is a pretty important piece of information.  For example,
> when processing OSM data for my own use I'll try and drop unsigned
> names and refs from roads (there's no point in saying "turn left on
> Foo Street" if "Foo Street" does not appear on the sign).

It depends on what you want. When someone asks me to navigate to 
Natanzon, Haifa how can I enter it when the only name in the map is 
נתנזון, חיפה?
I don't see why the transliterated name is not important.

Maarten