Why are you linking a french wiki page of forest? Un Foret Des Forets
I'm sure in german you have plurial forms such as with "und" and "das" etc On Oct 20, 2016 9:08 AM, "Christoph Hormann" <[email protected]> wrote: > On Thursday 20 October 2016, James wrote: > > Christoph, the source data for buildings has 0 tags that need to be > > translated as it is only building footprints and *0 attributes*. The > > source on an Ottawa web site/federal website is non-existant for the > > time being as: the city of ottawa litterally gave statscan a file on > > a flash drive to deal with it: [...] > > Well - without context on specifications and origin of the data i cannot > properly assess the import plans for it. We do not even know when this > data was surveyed. > > Overall this approach is highly questionable. Apparently someone > working for the City of Ottawa would like to see this data in OSM so > they make exactly this data in exactly the form they like to see in OSM > available and lobby for having it imported - without any evidence > regarding the quality and suitability of the data. > > If after the import it becomes evident that there were systematic > quality problems with the original data - will they accept > responsibility to fix these problems in OSM then? Or do they truly > believe the data being flawless because it was prepared by 'GIS > professionals'? > > Sorry if i come across here overly strong - but the attitude > communicated so far, which comes across clearly as 'these import plans > are beyond reproach so any concerns are obviously without basis' is > quite disrespectful for those who invest time to point out possible > problems. As Steward indicated you would be well advised to take the > Los Angeles buildings import as an example. > > > Des Forets Avenue (What's wrong with this? There are french road > > names especially in orleans "Des Forest" means Forests in English) > > https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/For%C3%AAt > > Note these are just examples from a few tiles i looked at. It is very > likely that the whole data set contains more of such cases. > > -- > Christoph Hormann > http://www.imagico.de/ >
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