[OSM-talk] Mechanical name edit? (was Re: Can wikidata links help fight name inflation?)

2015-05-30 Thread Roland Olbricht
Hi, Not only well-known tourist magnets carry foreign names; some dedicated language mappers have gone over and beyond the call of duty and added, for example, name:ru tags even to small villages: [..] (This is a matter currently under investigation by Data Working Group and it is relatively

Re: [OSM-talk] Mechanical name edit? (was Re: Can wikidata links help fight name inflation?)

2015-05-30 Thread Philip Barnes
On Sat, 2015-05-30 at 20:55 +1000, Warin wrote: On 30/05/2015 8:41 PM, Roland Olbricht wrote: Hi, On 05/30/2015 09:48 AM, Roland Olbricht wrote: Thank you for informing the community. Do you actually have substantial evidence of a mechanical edit or something similar? There are a

Re: [OSM-talk] Mechanical name edit? (was Re: Can wikidata links help fight name inflation?)

2015-05-30 Thread Frederik Ramm
Hi, On 05/30/2015 12:26 PM, Martin Koppenhoefer wrote: as a sidenote for those who plan to study Italian with the aid of osm-talk, München is 'Monaco di Baviera' in Italian ;-) Glad I didn't add that in a name:it tag ;) Bye Frederik -- Frederik Ramm ## eMail frede...@remote.org ##

Re: [OSM-talk] Mechanical name edit? (was Re: Can wikidata links help fight name inflation?)

2015-05-30 Thread Warin
On 30/05/2015 8:41 PM, Roland Olbricht wrote: Hi, On 05/30/2015 09:48 AM, Roland Olbricht wrote: Thank you for informing the community. Do you actually have substantial evidence of a mechanical edit or something similar? There are a couple individual complaints and license issues (people

Re: [OSM-talk] Mechanical name edit? (was Re: Can wikidata links help fight name inflation?)

2015-05-30 Thread Frederik Ramm
Hi, On 05/30/2015 09:48 AM, Roland Olbricht wrote: Thank you for informing the community. Do you actually have substantial evidence of a mechanical edit or something similar? There are a couple individual complaints and license issues (people taking names from a collection of military maps

Re: [OSM-talk] Mechanical name edit? (was Re: Can wikidata links help fight name inflation?)

2015-05-30 Thread Martin Koppenhoefer
Am 30.05.2015 um 12:13 schrieb Frederik Ramm frede...@remote.org: The German city of München is called Monaco di Bavaria in Italian, as a sidenote for those who plan to study Italian with the aid of osm-talk, München is 'Monaco di Baviera' in Italian ;-) cheers Martin

Re: [OSM-talk] Mechanical name edit? (was Re: Can wikidata links help fight name inflation?)

2015-05-30 Thread Roland Olbricht
Hi, On 05/30/2015 09:48 AM, Roland Olbricht wrote: Thank you for informing the community. Do you actually have substantial evidence of a mechanical edit or something similar? There are a couple individual complaints and license issues (people taking names from a collection of military maps