Changeset: 30451655
russian and english names for significant towns and cities
Closed by Komяpa
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Discussion
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Comment from andrewsh
Teh Wow.
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Comment from trolleway
Солсбері
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Comment from woodpeck
What is the source of these names? For example, Russian names of "Swadlincote" or "Great Dunmow"? Is there any evidence of these places actually having a name in Russian, or are these just transliterations?
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Comment from dudka
This should be interesting discussion :D
See the previous one.
https://lists.openstreetmap.org/pipermail/talk-gb/2014-August/thread.html#16294 -
Comment from Komяpa
Hello,
to find russian names for places, I googled for English place names plus "достопримечательности", "погода" or some other russian word. It shows a lot of pages where the name is used, and some of them have russian version.
If I had doubts and had to choose between different options, I googled for both and compared usage.
Is that enough evidence?
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Comment from woodpeck
Frankly, no - is *any* of these web sites more than a database of transliterated place names? I saw hotel listings, tour operators, and weather pages, all obviously using a generic catalogue of transliterated place names. These sites would generate a place page for any remote village that has a hotel or a weather station. Just because you can write a name in the cyrillic alphabet doesn't mean the place *has* that name. Actual humans have to know the place by that name for that to be the case.
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