On Fri, Aug 10, 2018 at 11:38 PM, Jo <winfi...@gmail.com> wrote: > Fortunately all streets in Brussels are already mapped, based on official > data from Urbis. So the person from Biel who would prefer to put / in those > names doesn't need to to so anymore. > > There are definitely street name signs which are wrong. It would be absurd > to copy that wrong text into the name tags. It's not so wrong that is > something completely different. > > Besides many street name signs in Brussels are like this: > > Avenue > Simon Bolivar > laan > > Even if that is a spelling error in itself. > name=Avenue Simon Bolivar - Simon Bolivarlaan > name:nl=Simon Bolivarlaan > > words glue together in Dutch, like they do in German. >
Given that situation I'd say the best way to map it is: name=Avenue Simon Bolivar Laan name:nl=Simon Bolivarlaan name:fr=Avenue Simon Bolivar Anyway, we don't want to put exactly what is on the street name signs in > our name tags. > Why not? It's what is on the sign. If that is what is on the sign then that is what is ought to be mapped. Or maybe I should change roads into rivers because I prefer rivers and I don't want to map exactly what is on the ground. > It's simply not practical > Why? String length isn't a data problem unless the string exceeds some arbitrary length allocated in the database schema. It takes me a lot less time to type a long bilingual name for a highway than to trace the highway itself. > and it would very quickly become nonsensical. > If "name=Avenue Simon Bolivar Laan" is nonsensical then the street sign is nonsensical. Complain to your local elected representative and ask him/her for legislation to change the naming conventions of street signs. I find it hard to understand why some mappers do not want to map reality. Unless it's because they wish the street signs were really monolingual. There are people where I live who object to any use of English, should I cater to their whims by amending all names around here to remove the English text or should I map what is there? -- Paul
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