[OSM-talk] Persian/Arabian Gulf Tagging

[Martin Koppenhoefer]

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> On 9 Dec 2021, at 12:19, Christoph Hormann <osm at imagico.de> wrote:
> 
> No, in OSM we record locally and independently verifiable geographic 
> facts, we distinctly do not record what people world wide predominantly 
> believe to be the reality, a.k.a. major consensus narrative, a.k.a. 
> wikipedia reality


we ask the crews of the ships? The people that are there on the „ground“? Or someone who lives a hundred kilometers away like someone else who uses a different name? 

If there is a name that people in far away countries have agreed on this means it can and should be recorded. That’s how names work, people use the same name so they know what they are talking about. We explicitly use name:language tags for these major consensus narrative names. In the case of offshore water with different languages spoken at the nearest coasts, there is no natural name which is valid for everybody in the sense of “name”. There are only names in different languages (and alt_names etc.).

Cheers Martin