Is there a name for the whole island? Hockey and rugby teams play under the name Ireland and represent the whole island. Should there be a clear distinction between the 26 county sovereign and independent state, the 6 county part of the UK and the whole island on the west side of the Irish Sea?
-----Original Message----- From: Nick Burrett [mailto:n...@sqrt.co.uk] Sent: Monday 8 June 2020 13:37 To: Discussion of OpenStreetMap in Ireland <talk-ie@openstreetmap.org> Subject: Re: [OSM-talk-ie] name=Ireland | Re: name=Éire / Ireland http://www.irishstatutebook.ie/eli/cons/en/html#part2 For those that don't trust Wikipedia On Mon, 8 Jun 2020, 12:38 Karl Newsletters, <kagyj...@gmail.com> wrote: > Article 4 of the Constitution of Ireland, gives the state its two > official names, Éire in Irish and Ireland in English. Each name is a > direct translation of the other. From 1937, the name Éire was often > used even in the English language. > > copy from wikipedia, so usual precautions apply > > > On Mon, 8 Jun 2020 at 12:05, Rory McCann <r...@technomancy.org> wrote: > > > I think `name=Ireland` is best. For `name`, the most commonly used > > name in the place for the thing is what it should be. And, whatever > > one things /should be/ the most common name, I think we can all > > agree that what /is/ the most common name is “Ireland”. > > > > `int_name` is a silly tag. I haven't heard of a good definition of > > that aside from “Name of the country in English”, which wronly > > prioritises English. Why not `int_name=جزيرة أيرلندا`? > > > > On 07/06/2020 16:24, Neil O'Byrne wrote: > > > The Irish euro coins just have Éire. So maybe name=Éire and > > int_name=Ireland > > > > > > -----Original Message----- > > > From: Colm Moore [mailto:colmmoor...@hotmail.com] > > > Sent: Sunday 7 June 2020 14:56 > > > To: talk-ie@openstreetmap.org > > > Subject: [OSM-talk-ie] name=Éire / Ireland > > > > > > Hi, > > > > > > https://www.openstreetmap.org/relation/62273 > > > > > > Someone has set the name of the (Republic of) Ireland to "Éire / > > Ireland". Whatever about Irish constitutional nuances, OSM usually > > uses > one > > field=one piece of data. I'm inclined to change it to name=Ireland, > > given that Ireland is the name that most people use. > > > > > > Separately, there is the matter of lots of the international > > translations are of "Republic of Ireland" instead of "Ireland". Does > anyone > > have thoughts on how to deal with potential grammatical issues in > > rationalising these? > > > > > > Colm > > > > > > > > > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > ----------------------------------------- > > > Never doubt that a small group of thoughtful, committed citizens > > > can > > change the world. Indeed, it is the only thing that ever has. > > Margaret > Mead > > _______________________________________________ > > > Talk-ie mailing list > > > Talk-ie@openstreetmap.org > > > https://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk-ie > > > > > > > > > > _______________________________________________ > > Talk-ie mailing list > > Talk-ie@openstreetmap.org > > https://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk-ie > > > _______________________________________________ > Talk-ie mailing list > Talk-ie@openstreetmap.org > https://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk-ie > _______________________________________________ Talk-ie mailing list Talk-ie@openstreetmap.org https://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk-ie -- This email has been checked for viruses by Avast antivirus software. https://www.avast.com/antivirus _______________________________________________ Talk-ie mailing list Talk-ie@openstreetmap.org https://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk-ie