On Mon, Aug 14, 2017 at 4:23 PM, Andy Townsend <[email protected]> wrote: > On 14/08/2017 15:04, Marc Gemis wrote: >> >> So how can you determine the preferred name from looking at that sign ? > > > From looking at the sign, you can't - but if you visit a place and open your > eyes and ears it'll become pretty obvious. If you walk into a shop or a > post office in the pointy bits of north Wales I can pretty much guarantee > that people will be speaking Welsh. It would be unfair and unrepresentative > to suggest that English has equivalence where that is the case. Signs - > particularly road signs - appear in two languages throughout, but that > doesn't mean that in a particular area both languages are in equal usage. >
So, yes, Wales is different than Brussels. Following your rule, it would mean many streets would have a French name in Brussels (if not all). Which would then create a political incident :-) > What you can't expect to do is jump in with a "global search and replace" > such as https://www.openstreetmap.org/changeset/50943658 using level0 and > not get complaints. +1, I'll agree on that. _______________________________________________ Talk-GB mailing list [email protected] https://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk-gb
