You forgot OpenStreetMap.fr and osm.be On Wed, Jan 8, 2020, 07:18 Michael Collinson <[email protected]> wrote:
> 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]> <[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 !? > _______________________________________________ > talk mailing list > [email protected] > https://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk >
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