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

[stevea]

On Feb 25, 2020, at 11:43 AM, Mario Frasca <mario at anche.no> wrote:
> 
> On 25/02/2020 14:22, stevea wrote:
>> as an emerging (emerged?) consensus we seem to be leaving the names of international objects in English
> 
> I wish to express my disagreement.
> 
> and I will give more examples, from openstreetmap.org, "the" map.
> 
> Gulf of Venice; Gulf of Trieste; unlabelled Mare Adriatico; North Sea; unlabelled Ostsee; unlabelled Canale di Otranto; Balearic Sea (you're kidding me!); unlabelled Mediterranean; unlabelled Red Sea; unlabelled seas and straits West of Japan; unlabelled Bering Strait;
> 
> so while I do feel uncomfortable seeing English labels between Venezia, Trst/Trieste and Istria, I am even more uncomfortable with the absence of labels elsewhere.

OK, Mario.  Evidently there is more to say about this.  Let us continue.
SteveA