Changeset: 39959296
added irish
Closed by hanzlan
Tags
created_by | iD 1.9.6 |
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host | https://www.openstreetmap.org/id |
imagery_used | Bing |
locale | de |
Discussion
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Comment from amapanda ᚛ᚐᚋᚐᚅᚇᚐ᚜ 🏳️🌈
I've undone this change ( https://www.openstreetmap.org/changeset/40204565 ), because the name of the country is `Ireland`, not `Éire - Ireland`, which is a combination of both languages. Yes, Ireland has 2 official languages, but you don't see them mixed together like this. The vast majority of the population speak English, at home and in their day to day life, so the English word is the most sensible for the name of the country.
Hope that clears things up.
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Comment from hanzlan
Hey! I guess you are used and annoyed of people changing the name of the country into Éire and of course sorry for that. Yes, I know Irish has become something like Latin, a language rarely heard in daily life, but not to bury it completely, shouldn't we add it to Ireland, so we can keep it alive. Also, when i think about the irish euro coins i just see Éire (which i think is a bit arrogant towards the majority of Irish people who just speak english) but on the other hand, thats one of the core elements that distinguish ireland from England, something irish people can be proud of, especially after english brexit :D in this sense, Sláinte!
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Comment from amapanda ᚛ᚐᚋᚐᚅᚇᚐ᚜ 🏳️🌈
I'm not annoyed about this, I think it basically never happens. ☺ (We've had more problems with Londonderry/Derry TBH).
We do have the Irish name in the OSM object, in the `name:ga` tag (we also have English in the `name:en`). `name` should be for the single most commonly used name, and I think many people use just "Ireland". You can use databases to construct something with each official name after the fact. Having the `name` set to "Ireland" makes for a cleaner, more useful, database.
Have you seen the [Irish language map we made](http://dev3.openstreetmap.ie/osm/slippymap.html?zoom=6&lat=52.44304&lon=-8.35828&layers=00BFFFFFFFFFFFFF) It has Éire. ☺
OSM is a database, and people can make a new map of whatever they want. The [French OSM map](http://tile.openstreetmap.fr/?zoom=5&lat=46.87523&lon=-9.65845&layers=B0000000FFFFFF) use the `name:fr` tag to have "Irlande", the [German OSM map](http://openstreetmap.de/karte.html?zoom=6&lat=50.21588&lon=-9.16777&layers=B000TF) use `name:de`, to have a map with "Irland" (and the other names).
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