On Wed, 4 Jul 2018 at 08:57, Sarah Hoffmann lonvia@denofr.de wrote:
OSM is a geospatial database that stores locations in the form of geo-coordinates. The coordinates are also useful to figure out the relative position to surrounding objects (aka: look at the map). If you rather like to have a database that stores location in the form of textual descriptions, so be it. I just don't think OSM is the place to dump all that information.
I agree with you. Perhaps Wikidata would be the better place to store location descriptions as well as those descriptive names. I also still wonder whether the sources from which Andreas got the names of the fountains [^1] are permissible on OSM. As far as I know, this shouldn't be a problem on Wikidata.
[^1]: http://lists.openstreetmap.ch/pipermail/talk-ch/2018-June/009578.html
Cheers
Markus