[OSM-talk] OSM Help Ukraine Map

[Brian M. Sperlongano]

On Fri, Mar 11, 2022, 7:33 AM Martin Koppenhoefer <dieterdreist at gmail.com>
wrote:

> Am Fr., 11. März 2022 um 13:30 Uhr schrieb Brian M. Sperlongano <
> zelonewolf at gmail.com>:
>
>> Any reasonably-competent data consumer that cares about multilingual
>> names is already using wikidata for this purpose.
>>
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> true
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>> There is no need from a data consumer standpoint to replicate this
>> information in OSM other than for the convenience of less-sophisticated
>> data consumers that can't be bothered to merge multi-source data when
>> building their product.
>>
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> unless you trust OSM more than wikidata...
>

I said "merge" deliberately.  Data consumers of course will have to decide
which to use if the same language name exists in both databases.  In my
experience, the OSM name is generally better.
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