[OSM-talk] Verifiability of names (was: Persian/Arabian Gulf Tagging)

[Martin Koppenhoefer]

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> On 10 Dec 2021, at 21:26, Christoph Hormann <osm at imagico.de> wrote:
> 
>> How can we decide whether an image of geography is distorted and
>> biased, what do we do if locals do not agree?
> 
> This is what we avoid by limiting ourselves to recording only 
> independently verifiable information.  


if your perception is biased and distorted, you’ll verify exactly this. :)

There is no solution for the “name” tag value of a place where nobody lives, if the neighbors cannot agree. We have space for all alternatives and variants if there are more than a very small group of people agreeing that it “exists”/is known (safeguards against trolling). You can have for example  official_name:CN. Even loc_name for specifically local names.

Cheers Martin