Re: [Tagging] foreign names for stuff, was: "Mörthe und Mosel"

2023-01-09 Thread Philip Barnes
It is likely to be confusing if it is not on the signs leading to the station. Phil (trigpoint) On 7 January 2023 19:10:17 GMT, Alexander Kane <1998alexk...@gmail.com> wrote: >I've been pondering whether to add name:en to European train stations when >the English announcement is usually

Re: [Tagging] foreign names for stuff, was: "Mörthe und Mosel"

2023-01-07 Thread Alexander Kane
I've been pondering whether to add name:en to European train stations when the English announcement is usually translated. For example Cologne South for the train station Köln Süd. Alex Mateusz Konieczny via Tagging schrieb am Fr., 6. Jan. 2023, 04:27: > > > > Jan 5, 2023, 17:36 by

Re: [Tagging] foreign names for stuff, was: "Mörthe und Mosel"

2023-01-06 Thread Mateusz Konieczny via Tagging
Jan 5, 2023, 17:36 by frede...@remote.org: > Hi, > > On 1/5/23 11:00, Anne- Karoline Distel wrote: > >> I personally found old, yet now maybe offensive names on OpenStreetMap very >> useful >> > > Yes, this is something people occasionally quote as a reason for keeping old > street names as

Re: [Tagging] foreign names for stuff, was: "Mörthe und Mosel"

2023-01-05 Thread Philip Barnes
On Wed, 2023-01-04 at 23:11 +0100, Frederik Ramm wrote: > > (b) a silly translation that has no basis in reality ("pont neuf" = > "Neue Brücke", or the recently discovered Latin name "sub tilias" for > the well-known street "Unter den Linden" in Berlin) Just checked this one, it has a name:en of

Re: [Tagging] foreign names for stuff, was: "Mörthe und Mosel"

2023-01-05 Thread Frederik Ramm
Hi, On 1/5/23 11:00, Anne- Karoline Distel wrote: I personally found old, yet now maybe offensive names on OpenStreetMap very useful Yes, this is something people occasionally quote as a reason for keeping old street names as well - genealogy and other historic research. Such names should

Re: [Tagging] foreign names for stuff, was: "Mörthe und Mosel"

2023-01-05 Thread Niels Elgaard Larsen
On Thu, 5 Jan 2023 11:00:57 +0100 Anne- Karoline Distel wrote: >I personally found old, yet now maybe offensive names on OpenStreetMap >very useful when I was trying to locate senders' locations of >postcards written by German soldiers in WW1 from the eastern and >western front. But it may not

Re: [Tagging] foreign names for stuff, was: "Mörthe und Mosel"

2023-01-04 Thread Philip Barnes
On 4 January 2023 22:11:23 GMT, Frederik Ramm wrote: >Hi, > >On 1/4/23 13:05, Marc_marc wrote: >> or nothing due the fact that the only "Mörthe und Mosel“ >> is on https://www.openstreetmap.org/relation/51856 >> with a name=* in french :) > >It does have a name:de though, like other French

Re: [Tagging] foreign names for stuff, was: "Mörthe und Mosel"

2023-01-04 Thread Frederik Ramm
Hi, On 1/4/23 13:05, Marc_marc wrote: or nothing due the fact that the only "Mörthe und Mosel“ is on https://www.openstreetmap.org/relation/51856 with a name=* in french :) It does have a name:de though, like other French departements - I was rahter surprised to read "Großer Osten" on a map