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

[Philip Barnes]

On Sat, 2015-05-30 at 11:05 +0100, SomeoneElse wrote:
> 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 have certainly used signposts as verification of name:cy=Eglwys Wen,
name:cy=Croesoswallt, name:cy=Yr Amwythig and name:cy=Caer.

Phil (trigpoint)