2016-02-26 10:05 GMT+01:00 Jean-Guilhem Cailton <[email protected]>: > > are these names English or fiji or hindi? > > > > cheers > > Martin > > > > They are "name" found in reports from Fijian officials or medias - that > apparently use English, an official language in Fiji (I haven't seen > Fijian news reports in other languages - yet) - and often found in the > "name" tag in OSM in Fiji. And in 1944 US topo maps for "old_name".
I find it problematic to make remote edits based on foreign maps and add names in a foreign language as main names, although because of colonization this foreign language is apparently used as lingua franca. I see this as kind of ungoing colonization, where I'd actually expect people use names in their first language to refer to the places they live. From a quick internet search it appears that English isn't the first language for a vast majority of people living in Fiji. My suggestion is to use the tags name:en and old_name:en for names and old names in English. Cheers, Martin
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