On Wednesday 25 March 2020, Jyri-Petteri Paloposki wrote: > > I slightly disagree with this one. IMO a name in a foreign language > would be admissible if it is recognised by native speakers of the > language either back home or in the local community OR if the name is > otherwise regarded correct by mainstream media or a language > authority.
Yes, that line of reasoning is fairly widespread among mappers - considering secondary sources of information as valid sources of information for OSM and not requiring local verifiability but settling for compatibility with the major consensus narrative of the mapper's culture. I have written in more detail about the problems of this idea some time ago in http://blog.imagico.de/verifiability-and-the-wikipediarization-of-openstreetmap/ -- Christoph Hormann http://www.imagico.de/ _______________________________________________ Tagging mailing list [email protected] https://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/tagging
