Thanks for such brief replys!

On 26 April 2018 at 00:40, Joe Matazzoni <[email protected]> wrote:

>  I think you’re right that there is no “solution" on our side, since it’s
> an issue in the data. Maybe the new internationalized maps will inspire
> Wikimedians to enrich OSM data with more names in more languages. I hope so!
>

I would hope that it would be possible to use Wikidata labels for map
internalization in a future not so distant, instead of "name:*" tags in
OSM. Although I have no idea how to possibly implement such thing in a way
which won't be time-costly, it is definitely a way to investigate, because
it would not only solve this problem, but enhance the internalization
drastically, as WD has many more labels than OSM contain in names [yet I
don't have any proofy statistics in hand, just my impression..]

Regards
 Jan
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