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175905062 17 days ago

A "name" tag didn't exist before, no "name" tag was removed, as you can see in the history: way/732390430/history I cannot add a name in a language I don't know precisly. You are free to add the name tag, if you are firm in Standard Morrocan Tamazight. :) .

164025550 17 days ago

Why did you remove the Arabic name from the "name" tag? Also, why are you changing the "name" tag without looking for community-consent? I neither found a discussion in the OSM Wiki nor in the forums or mailing lists, that there is a approval for name-changing.

175905043 17 days ago

French names were added without community consent or discussion by a single user, this is forbidden, I am just restoring the previous community-consent status quo. French is neither an official language in Mauritania nor a native language of the population in Mauritania. But you are right in the case that I should make my comments more descriptive. :)

170443326 5 months ago

Thank you for noticing, I corrected it to name:lt

137649810 7 months ago

Generic names like "house" are undesirable in OSM, so they have to be removed. The whole nodes where faulty created and needed to be recreated. A house node is completely unneeded and can be redrawn by someone through the satelitte images. I just forgot to also remove check_date.

141788323 almost 2 years ago

I am not the person who entered the tag "boundary=Emergency". Please contact the correct person for that. You can find it in the changelog history.

139172017 over 2 years ago

Sorry, this was an oversight. I already corrected it.

135357978 over 2 years ago

Two objects already existed for the town of Theeb:
node/8128209867
way/872858705

As far as I see the name Wadi Theeb for this neighbourhood was already correct, while Theeb is the name of the whole municaplity.

135357978 over 2 years ago

Why did you completly removed the Arabic name from this village?

And why do you add a source which is not compatible with OSM?

According to the website mindat.org:
"Because this site contains the copyright material of other members, you agree not to try to extract information from this site for any other use than viewing of this website material."
(https://www.mindat.org/terms.php)

135323508 over 2 years ago

I am not the person who decides on the rules, I just apply them.

If you want a discussion about the naming rules, please use the appropriate OSM communication channels (wiki, forum, mailing list).

Sources should not be in the "description" tag. There is a "source" tag for this. In addition, it must first be clarified whether the source you are using is allowed by copyright.

I don't know what you mean by the Wikidata tag. Wikidata aggregates data worldwide, regardless of the language in which Wikipedia articles exist.

135323508 over 2 years ago

I travel a lot there and I have relatives there, but that doesn't matter for this case, because the rules in the OSM Wiki are clearly that Arabic is used primarily for the name tag:
osm.wiki/United_Arab_Emirates#Naming

Hundreds of thousands of street names have Arabic in the "name" tag and English in the "name:en" tag. There is a reason for this and it would be absurd to change it.

If you want to change or discuss this rule, please use the OSM mailing lists, forums or Wiki discussions:
https://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk-asia

Of course English is a lot spoken in the big cities, but the official and native language is Arabic, especially in rural and mountainous regions.

For "The National Atlas of the United Arab Emirates" also an equal Arabic language edition exists. Do you even have a permission/licence to use this work for OSM?

You can use of course the Latin/English name in the primary "name" tag, if there is no Arabic equivalent available. But if there is already an Arabic name in the primary name tag, it should not be changed.

Kumzari is also written with Arabic alphabet and place names in Kumzari are identical or nearly-identical to their Arabic equivalent, so this is more an argument in favour of using Arabic as primary name.

135323508 over 2 years ago

The only official languages of the United Arab Emirates and Oman according to its consitution is Arabic. As you can see the primary name of all names in UAE and Oman is Arabic.

According to the OSM guidelines the name tag must be in the native language. Names in Russia are in Russian in Cyrillic alphabet, names in China are in Chinese in Chinese alphabet, names in Arab countries are in Arabic with Arabic alphabet. So please don't change the primary language without the local community consent, this is against OSM rules.

If you want to use maps localised in your language (e.g. English or Spanish) you can use other map providers like osMap:
osm.wiki/OsMap