Re: [talk-au] Russian Town Names?

On Fri, 8 Oct 2021 at 12:35, Dian Ågesson wrote: > Hello, > > I’ve stumbled upon a considerable trove of towns that have had Russian > names added to them. > Over this last couple of weeks I've also spotted a number of small Qld country towns that have Chinese names included eg

Re: [talk-au] Russian Town Names?

Hi, we had a case in Europe where tons of more or less invented (auto-generated) Russian names were added by a Russian who was playing a computer game that was using OSM maps and they wanted a nicer map display ;) Bye Frederik -- Frederik Ramm ## eMail frede...@remote.org ## N49°00'09"

Re: [talk-au] Russian Town Names?

There general rule in OSM is only tag if the place does have a common name in that language, and not tag transliteration. If you really want to add transliterations this can be done via Wikidata which can be linked to OSM. Some maps like Mapbox will then use the Wikidata linked transliterations

[talk-au] Russian Town Names?

Hello, I've stumbled upon a considerable trove of towns that have had Russian names added to them. https://overpass-turbo.eu/s/1bRp After going through them they nearly all seem to be transliteration done my the same handful of users (who have various amounts of blocks). While the tag is