Hi, On 23.02.20 23:38, Alan Mackie wrote: > This conversation is petty, repetitive and tedious in the extreme
It is tediuos but not without merit. Yes the project was founded by white Englishmen but in other departments we're trying to extend our reach and make sure that we are also interesting for non-white non-English non-men. It is not, in principle, wrong to question some of our existing assumptions, values, or decisions. I think that while in this particular case the question was asked by someone on a mission to propagate an aspirational "international language", it *is* worth discussing if (or why) the "name" tag on a body of water bordered by a number of countries neither of which has English as an official language, should contain the English name. We're currently using English in such situations "by default"; none of our existing written policies can explain why we do that. If the result of this discussion is an agreement in the community that using the English name in the "name" tag whenever a feature is bordered by two or more countries using different languages (or whatever) is "the rigth thing to do in OSM", then the discussion will have been valuable. We're not there yet though; we're kind of shouting down Tomek because he's aggressively questioning the status quo, but we haven yet managed to come up with a rule that would fortify the status quo. Bye Frederik -- Frederik Ramm ## eMail [email protected] ## N49°00'09" E008°23'33" _______________________________________________ talk mailing list [email protected] https://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk
