Re: [OSM-talk] Metropolitan France : what todo with all "supossed to be wrong" name:xx ?

2019-11-19 Thread Martin Koppenhoefer
sent from a phone > On 19. Nov 2019, at 17:11, Colin Smale via talk > wrote: > > If a language doesn't have a term for "Metropolitan France" then there > shouldn't be a name:xx in OSM. > If a language doesn’t have a term for Metropolitan France it is likely they have more than one term

Re: [OSM-talk] Metropolitan France : what todo with all "supossed to be wrong" name:xx ?

2019-11-19 Thread marc marc
> Judging by https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q212429, > the answer to the last question is no. Thanks. ___ talk mailing list talk@openstreetmap.org https://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk

Re: [OSM-talk] Metropolitan France : what todo with all "supossed to be wrong" name:xx ?

2019-11-19 Thread marc marc
Hello, Just look at the 2 relation to understand that they are 2 different things with a difference in thousands of kilometers https://www.openstreetmap.org/relation/2202162 https://www.openstreetmap.org/relation/1403916 I don't know which country you live in, but the administrative details of

Re: [OSM-talk] Metropolitan France : what todo with all "supossed to be wrong" name:xx ?

2019-11-19 Thread marc marc
Hello, Andy Townsend wrote : > you could go through the history of the relation and comment > in a changeset of everyone who's added a translation that might > be wrong explaining the problem. yes, but parsing 587 versions to find 222 contributors (maybe a little less, a mapper may add

Re: [OSM-talk] Metropolitan France : what todo with all "supossed to be wrong" name:xx ?

2019-11-19 Thread Steve Doerr
On 19/11/2019 15:03, marc marc wrote: -- those using the latin script are therefore probably false since the presence of a single word is probably enough to detect the error. is it better to delete them ? or some languages may have only one word for "Metropolitan France" ? Judging by

Re: [OSM-talk] Metropolitan France : what todo with all "supossed to be wrong" name:xx ?

2019-11-19 Thread Colin Smale via talk
On 2019-11-19 16:40, Jóhannes Birgir Jensson wrote: > Not all languages make, or care about making, a distinction of France > (including non-Europe) and France (only Europe). This is not a question of language. They are different concepts, and irrespective of the language you are speaking, it

Re: [OSM-talk] Metropolitan France : what todo with all "supossed to be wrong" name:xx ?

2019-11-19 Thread Jóhannes Birgir Jensson
Not all languages make, or care about making, a distinction of France (including non-Europe) and France (only Europe). This is an administrative detail which has no relevance for most of us, even if we are frequent visitors in France and love it (me!). Thus our languages do not differentiate

Re: [OSM-talk] Metropolitan France : what todo with all "supossed to be wrong" name:xx ?

2019-11-19 Thread Andy Townsend
On 19/11/2019 16:03, marc marc wrote: ... but the question arises as to what to do with the other names:xx : If you've got the time and the inclination, you could go through the history of the relation and comment in a changeset of everyone who's added a translation that might be wrong

[OSM-talk] Metropolitan France : what todo with all "supossed to be wrong" name:xx ?

2019-11-19 Thread marc marc
Hello, https://www.openstreetmap.org/relation/1403916 once again, one contributor confused France and Metropolitan France (the part of France located on the european continent as opposed to the so-called "overseas" territories). This time, the contributor also modified the set of names that was