On Sun, 5 Jan 2020 at 23:27, Tomek <to...@disroot.org> wrote: > > I plan to remove the "name" and "wikipedia" tags from places that are not > associated with a specific nation or language: > * continents > * north and south poles > * seas and bays, but exceptionally leaving the "name" tag for seas with a > maximum of two (or three) languages of neighboring countries, so for example > "Белое море" will not change. > The purpose of this edition is to make the OSM map more neutral and not > humiliate people from any country. There is no reason for the Baltic Sea to > be the "Baltic Sea" or for South America to be "South America" - this is an > example of English imperialism.
I support removing the name=* tag from these places, but for a different reason: The name=* tag is used to store the local name: "Note that OSM follows the On the Ground Rule. Names recorded in name=* tag are ones that are locally used, especially ones typically signposted." [1] For places where it's impossible to identify a local name, the name tag should not have been filled out (or at least not set to a single language). [1]: https://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Key:name Regards Markus _______________________________________________ Tagging mailing list Tagging@openstreetmap.org https://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/tagging
