[OSM-talk] Relevance of the “name” tag in places where there is no obvious associated language

[Mateusz Konieczny]

6 Dec 2019, 12:04 by frederik at remote.org:

> I have reverted a recent edit in which the "name" tag was removed from
> some "international" objects by a user (on the grounds of "if I cannot
> have an Esperanto name then nobody shall have a name for that object!"),
> however in principle, if the community came to the conclusion that this
> was a good idea, I would not be opposed.
>
For things like Atlantic Ocean or Pacific Ocean
I would be OK with not adding name tag at all.

Though idea of mapping ocean seems suspect to me
AFAIK there are many way to divide oceans and there is no consensus

See https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Borders_of_the_oceans
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