On Thursday 10 May 2018, Colin Smale wrote: > > I should probably add that what can be considered the name of a > > feature is ultimately the decision of the local community. > > ...as long as there are global ground rules. The autonomy of local > communities, just like democracy, cannot be unbounded. OSM is a > global resource. What's a local community, anyway? We don't want > people in one city doing things differently from another city 10km > away in the same country, do we?
The definition of a name is pretty universal (as the verbal identifier a certain specific object is referred to with). There is not much local variation in that. > A "name" is what something is "called" by "others." Which "others" > are considered, is the real debate here. Is it the council? Is it the > residents within 100m? Is it a tourist who doesn't speak the local > language? Who gets priority? This is something that cartographers > (AKA humans determining the rendering) must decide, depending on who > the map is for. You are mixing the geographic concept of a name with the cartographic concept of a label here - which is of course something a lot of mappers do when they choose name tags. -- Christoph Hormann http://www.imagico.de/ _______________________________________________ Tagging mailing list Tagging@openstreetmap.org https://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/tagging
