[OSM-talk] [Tagging] nomoj de internaciaj objektoj / nazwy obiektów międzynarodowych / names of international objects

[Frederik Ramm]

Hi,

On 23.02.20 23:38, Alan Mackie wrote:
> This conversation is petty, repetitive and tedious in the extreme

It is tediuos but not without merit.

Yes the project was founded by white Englishmen but in other departments
we're trying to extend our reach and make sure that we are also
interesting for non-white non-English non-men. It is not, in principle,
wrong to question some of our existing assumptions, values, or decisions.

I think that while in this particular case the question was asked by
someone on a mission to propagate an aspirational "international
language", it *is* worth discussing if (or why) the "name" tag on a body
of water bordered by a number of countries neither of which has English
as an official language, should contain the English name.

We're currently using English in such situations "by default"; none of
our existing written policies can explain why we do that.

If the result of this discussion is an agreement in the community that
using the English name in the "name" tag whenever a feature is bordered
by two or more countries using different languages (or whatever) is "the
rigth thing to do in OSM", then the discussion will have been valuable.

We're not there yet though; we're kind of shouting down Tomek because
he's aggressively questioning the status quo, but we haven yet managed
to come up with a rule that would fortify the status quo.

Bye
Frederik

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