[OSM-talk] WMF: "Interactive maps, now in your language"

[Simon Poole]

Am 29.06.2018 um 13:21 schrieb Andy Mabbett:
> ...
> Nor are they.
>
> I expected some negativity in response to this remarkable good news;
> but this hyperbolic response is beyond acceptable.
So you are denying that they are asking their users to add names to OSM
so that their application looks better?

When the results are unsatisfactory, there are a few things you can do:

  *

    Add the missing names to OSM in your language.

It is simply a fact that most places in the world only have a name in
the relevant local language(s) and that the well known places with
multiple names and potentially special transliterations (that can't be
generated mechanically) are by far the exception

PS: the news isn't actually news it is essentially a rehash of a
previously published blog post, which however had the same issues.






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