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

[SomeoneElse]

On 29/05/2015 12:51, Maarten Deen wrote:
>
> 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.

No-one is saying that the transliterated name is not useful for all 
sorts of reasons (the thread title "can wikidata links help..." makes it 
clear that this is about trying to make it easier to get to these names, 
not harder).  The question here is, in a case when a name:xx isn't 
widely used in the place and doesn't appear on signs*, how can a user of 
the data know that they've got there or not?

OSM shouldn't be it's own parallel universe - we map what's on the ground.

Cheers,

Andy


* I have absolutely no idea what signage is around Haifa - if a name:en 
for a place does appear on signs and is useful to use to see if you have 
got there then clearly there needs to be some indicator that says that 
name:en is useful here, but (say) name:cy is not.