[OSM-talk] "Keulen" (was Re: Can wikidata links help fight name inflation?)

[SomeoneElse]

On 30/05/2015 07:59, Roland Olbricht wrote:
>
> I happened to drive through Belgium a few days ago, heading home. A 
> good approximation of home in this case is "name"="Köln". Actually, I 
> found a street sign (150 km away from "Köln") that reads "Keulen". 
> Should I have followed it or not?
>

A name:xx that's actually used on signposts on the ground (the name of a 
place in a neighbouring country on a road in that country going to that 
place) to guide travellers to a place is clearly "on the ground 
verifiable".  I used Abergavenny (in a largely English-speaking part of 
Wales) as a specific example previously to try and separate the 
"commonly used e.g. on signposts" names from the "translations".

I've mentioned http://www.openstreetmap.org/node/267762522 elsewhere in 
the thread - if you're getting a bus there from the west it'll certainly 
have both "Doire" and "Derry" on it, and up in the Donegal Gaeltacht if 
there's a sign it'll almost certainly _only_ say "Doire".

Cheers,

Andy