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

[Simon Poole]

As already has been pointed out nobody is even remotely proposing to
limit adding actual real names, quite the contrary.

It just needs to be understood that most places and objects don't
actually have names in more than one language or transliterations that
are special (aka not machine generated). As already pointed out  take
the name of the place which I happen to live in,  WD has 26 name entries
of which 24 are rubbish and 1 doubtful, the most likely generated from
the WP page urls (and a number of those pages are bot generated). A
classic example of GIGO.

Simon


Am 30.06.2018 um 10:32 schrieb 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.
>
> --
> Andrew
> ------------------------------------------------------------------------
> *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.
>
> -- 
> Andy Mabbett
> @pigsonthewing
> http://pigsonthewing.org.uk
>
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