On Wed, 25 Mar 2020 at 10:02, <pang...@riseup.net> wrote: > Honestly I don't think it makes sense for OSM to have names at all on > objects which has a Wikidata reference. >
Not all mappable objects have a Wikidata reference. Cities and big towns, yes. Villages and hamlets, most but not all. Even where a wikidata reference exists, not all languages are given, even when some are actually used by locals. I live in Wales. Wales is multilingual, Welsh and English. For some hamlets and villages there is no English Wikipedia page, just a Welsh one. The Wikidata items for Welsh-only Wikipedia pages often have only the Welsh name. The road signs have both Welsh and English on them. Some of the small hamlets don't have a Wikipedia page at all, and no Wikidata item either. There is no Wikidata item for the short street around the corner from me. Its road sign says "Heol Napier / Napier Street" (the "/" isn't on the sign, I'm using it to represent a line break). If that sign were replaced, it might instead say "Heol Napier Street." There are a lot of mappable objects which don't have Wikidata items yet require names in at least two languages just to satisfy the people that live there on a permanent basis. We can't rely on Wikidata in multilingual localities. -- Paul
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