On 2020-01-07 18:27, Mateusz Konieczny wrote:
6 Jan 2020, 16:35 by [email protected]:
On 6. Jan 2020, at 07:29, Maarten Deen <[email protected]> wrote:
Baltic Sea to be the "Baltic Sea" or for South America to
be "South
America" - this is an example of English imperialism.
This "imperialism" idea of yours is just your idea. It is not
something that is widely felt.
regarding imperialism, I think it’s hard to reject the reasoning
that English is in widespread use because of imperialism.
Yes, but using it for a pragmatic reasons
for an international communication is
usually not imperialism.
I can try to communicate with group of people
from different countries in Polish,
Latin, Sindarin or Esperanto.
But except rare cases using English is likely
to result in more efficient communication.
Totally agree with Mateusz. English is the current trading language. It
has been Farsi and other languages in the past. It will probably
Mandarin Chinese/simplified hanji in the future. But right now it is
English.
I think the whole debate misses the point. The OSM database is
language-agnostic right now. The https://www.openstreetmap.org slippy
map was intended to A map show-casing the database. But it has turned
into THE map.
A potential solution is to offer centralised support for other lingual
(and culture, which is not always the same thing) maps. That of course
is a much easier thing to say rather than do as it requires time and
money resource, but it puzzles me why 15 years into the project we only
have 4 layers on our main site.
Mike
Note that we do have some great projects in the wealthier economies such
as https://openstreetmap.se/ https://openstreetmap.jp
https://www.openstreetmap.de/ ... Why aren't these integrated in some
way into our main site !?
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