Hi,
Not only well-known tourist magnets carry foreign names; some dedicated
language mappers have gone over and beyond the call of duty and added,
for example, name:ru tags even to small villages:
[..]
(This is a matter currently under investigation by Data Working Group
and it is relatively certain that not all 582,653 name:ru tags will remain.)
Thank you for informing the community. Do you actually have substantial
evidence of a mechanical edit or something similar?
When checking e.g. Wales
http://overpass-turbo.eu/s/9EQ
I found a distribution that rather looks like the result of human activity.
Even more, the biggest changeset involved
http://www.openstreetmap.org/changeset/24593727
has a full discussion attached to it:
https://lists.openstreetmap.org/pipermail/talk-gb/2014-August/016294.html
When cross-checking with another region (in Northrhine-Westphalia) I
found that the "name:ru" tags there have been added by an even bigger
number of different mappers. For some of them, I know personally that
they are locals. For example, the stadium in Cologne seems to have got
its Russian name when a football match to a Russian team took place.
So, could you please point out a suspicious changeset?
Best regards,
Roland
_______________________________________________
talk mailing list
talk@openstreetmap.org
https://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk
