[OSM-talk] Persian/Arabian Gulf Tagging

[Mostafa Ahangarha]

On 11/27/21 6:00 PM, Ebrahim Nejati via talk wrote:
> Today, I went over the all past discussion and mails in this topic. As
> far as I don't like to re-open this topic but I think it's needed.
> Because:
> 1. Though the made discussions were not pointless, it didn't reach any closure
> or any actions on the map.
> 2. As I checked the edits on the Gulf area, the edit-wars didn't fade
> away after the posts nor it became less important to mappers.
> 3. Recently OSM carto tiles has been blocked in Iran by certain ISPs
> because of the Gulf naming issue. It became painstakingly hard for Iranian
> mappers to contribute.
> 
> As the majority of posts agreed upon removing the `name` tag on the Gulf
> area, I think it's the best option to solve the disputes. So
> I am going to do that.
> 
> Please do tell if you have any rejections or have a better solution to
> this issue. But please read the previous made discussions prior to that.

I opened discussion weeks ago and received no response from any side. I 
think we from Iranian community expressed in best possible way that we 
are open for helping to find right decision but it seems OSM prefers to 
give more chance to bullies and loud people.

We proposed several options including to remove name tag at least till 
we reach to some resolution. And here is where we are.

Doesn't anyone like to seriously start a war on edit? If not, lets come 
to some sort of logical resolution which can be applied in other cases 
as well.

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Regards,
Mostafa Ahangarha