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I wonder how they deal with political topics. For example, searching on their map for "Palestine" brings you to some village outside of Rennes, France. Searchin
by bjourne 9y ago
I wonder how they deal with political topics. For example, searching on their map for "Palestine" brings you to some village outside of Rennes, France. Searching for "Israel" brings you to the state with that name.
- maxerickson 9y agoBy trying not to. https://wiki.osmfoundation.org/w/images/d/d8/DisputedTerritoriesInformation.pdf https://wiki.osmfoundation.org/w/images/d/d8/DisputedTerrito... Part of the explanation for your search is that local languages are given some preference by that search engine. Searching in the US I get the city in Texas as the first result. Searching the Arabic فلسطين returns the country.
- bjourne 9y agoThen why is ישראל (Israel) displayed in my browser when I hover over the region but not فلسطين (Palestine)?
- maxerickson 9y agoWhatever you are looking at is preferring one of the particular name tags on https://www.openstreetmap.org/relation/1473946 https://www.openstreetmap.org/relation/1473946 or https://www.openstreetmap.org/node/424297647 https://www.openstreetmap.org/node/424297647 Likely "name" on the node link. (assuming the display you are looking at is getting the data from OSM anyway; The default tiles on osm.org will use the "name" tag on nodes for most rendered place names, other users might combine OSM data with other data sources or whatever)