Hi! I would like to add ukrainian names for cities of UK, but found that SomeoneElse_Revert removed some of name:uk-tags in changeset 20757217 with a comment "reverting undiscussed Ukrainian "translations" including ones for which there's nothing on the ground". This is the list of cities I plan to modify: http://overpass-turbo.eu/s/4rF
I raised the question in irc osm-gb and was surprised since there are local mappers that prefer to avoid adding name:**-tags. They say one should use algorithms to get name:** automatically. (I didn't find any algorithm for english-to-ukrainian conversion, although there is one for ukrainian-to-latin conversion) Actually I don't see any disadvantages on adding name:**-tags, but there are benefits described in http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Map_Internationalization http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Translation#OpenStreetMap_map_data The most important - any service may use name:**-values without learning languages and implementing probably existing algorithms. Note, I agree that adding name:uk is unnecessary and useless for streets and other objects that were never translated to ukrainian. But large cities are often mentioned in [tranlated to ukrainian] news, books, web articles, etc. Let's add this information to OpenStreetMap.
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