On 04/08/14 16:15, Pavlo Dudka wrote:
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
There might be some need to check that:
- the names really are those used in Ukraine;
- they haven't been taken from a copyright source - a likely problem
when importing in bulk;
- the process will not override existing Ukrainian names.
but...
ones for which there's nothing on the ground".
I certainly don't think that commonly used names should be rejected
simply because the local signage doesn't include them. As I pointed out
to SomeoneElse elsewhere, most or all UK Universities have a Chinese
name, even though it probably doesn't appear at the entrance to the
campus. That probably extends to all the cities and towns, as well.
Taking the Chinese case, particularly, the names are often a mix of
phonetic and semantic translations. E.g Cambridge has a phonetic for
the Cam and a straight translation for the bridge, but Oxford is a
translation of both parts. Westminster is a translation for West and a
phonetic for Minster. The phonetic may only work for one dialect, or may
even be Japanese.
The red brick university in question, had more than 940,000 Google hits
on its Chinese name (actually now 1.36 million), in spite of not being
signed with that name.
The reason that I don't normally add foreign language names, unless
actually signed, is that most of the sources I would have for them would
have effective database copyrights.
This is the list of cities I plan to modify: http://overpass-turbo.eu/s/4rF
Those look like the sort of major cities and towns that would have
foreign language names.
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