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

[Andrew Hain]

One of OSM’s strengths is, or should be, that we are a truly worldwide map. Multilingual names are part of this. Excluding actual names from the map database as “ought not” is no different from omitting casinos in a stand against gambling or leaving the road number of the high street in your town off the map.

It is unfortunate that a few people have sought to limit the contribution of names by our mappers.

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Andrew
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From: Andy Mabbett <andy at pigsonthewing.org.uk>
Sent: 29 June 2018 12:21:06
To: OSM talk mailing list
Subject: Re: [OSM-talk] WMF: "Interactive maps, now in your language"

On 29 June 2018 at 11:57, Simon Poole <simon at poole.ch> wrote:

>> On 29.06.2018 12:18, Andy Mabbett wrote:

>>> New Wikimedia Foundation blog post:
>>>
>>>
>>> https://blog.wikimedia.org/2018/06/28/interactive-maps-now-in-your-language/

> they should not be calling for their users to vandalize OSM.

Nor are they.

I expected some negativity in response to this remarkable good news;
but this hyperbolic response is beyond acceptable.

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Andy Mabbett
@pigsonthewing
http://pigsonthewing.org.uk

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