> Am 19/mar/2014 um 21:59 schrieb Laurence Penney <[email protected]>:
>
> While the larger cities have well-known and current German names that are
> uncontroversial — Warschau, Posen, Breslau, etc. — many small towns and
> villages would only have been given German names during the Third Reich.
+1, not only the larger places had longstanding German names but generally
those in areas with German population (the Deutsches Reich had lost a lot of
territory in 1918 after loosing the first World War it had started 4 years
before)
>
> It is therefore contentious to use the “name:de” tag for these places, unless
> one is making a map of occupied Poland during WW2. The naming was a political
> act, and most of the names were not used by Germans, even those living in the
> vicinity, before 1939 or after 1945. Taking politics out of it, perhaps one
> could use the date to indicate when the name was in use, thus a key of
> “name:de(1939-1945)”.
yes, this was the conclusion on the German ML as well, use
old_name:de:1939-1945 or name:de:1939-1945 or sth similar, but astonishingly I
can't find a single instance of these with taginfo right now (maybe some
mass-retagging?).
This way of tagging also allows for multiple historical names, in Germany you
can often find toponyms that changed more than one time (from the imperial name
to the nazi name, in eastern Germany then to a socialist name and finally back
to the imperial name in recent times).
cheers,
Martin
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