Algeria has tow official languages Arabic then French. Later, they added Berber as 3rd official but only applied in specific regions. We have other dialects. Taking example Jijel (Wilaya/state) & Taher (Baladia/commune), name then roll back...
I used to map in Jijel place where I live. In Jijel, most road signs are in Arabic only. In the national roads, may see French beside Arabic. Some limited regions have Berber or Kabyle as a plus.
I read about similar cases, but those are missing a special ingredient hate Is it possible to disable asked 27 May '15, 12:47 Bean |
No, it is not possible to disable key:name for some regions. I think you should get in contact with the DWG and hope they can help you to settle the conflict with the other mapper. I think mapping the names in both (or all four languages) is the correct way. The other mapper should not change the name. In Belgium (Brussels area), we use 'french name - dutch name' as name and add name:fr and name:nl as well. In some cases you might see the reversed order in the name. It just depends on the mother tongue of the mapper that added the name. This works fine for us and I am not aware of any serious incidents, although their are (political) groups enough to make a lot of fuss about it. Not so in OSM so far. answered 27 May '15, 13:04 escada Thank you, I've sent them an email.
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Offtopic: you should use wikipedia:en=Jijel instead of wikipedia_1=en:jijel for additional wikipedia values. Even then, it's probably not necessary.
@VincentdePhily , :) that's exactly on topic. I didn't want to get far with language conflict. If you noticed an other mapper put
fr:jijel
inkey:wikipedia