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polish name (help me change the german names in poland)

Closed 2 months ago by Bielikoo

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• Comment from CharliePlett 2 months ago

  Look, this village was founded in 1892 when it was still part of Germany, that's why the name is in German. To put a Polish name you would have to find when the village became part of Poland or when it was renamed and create another village with that start_date and give this village an end_date. If you would like more help, I'd be glad to help you.

• Comment from Bielikoo 2 months ago

  ohh i didnt know that thanks

• Comment from jeffmeyer 2 months ago

  Hi Bielikoo - welcome to OHM! Charlie is correct. `start_date` and `end_date` tags are very helpful to show when things change over time. One note I'd add is that even if we need to change a tag, there's usually a place you can store the tag's value without deleting it - in this case, `name:de`. There's a ton of great discussion about this on our forum - https://forum.openhistoricalmap.org/, and our wiki - https://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/OpenHistoricalMap. Even a small thing like a village changing primary name invokes all kinds of European history, tagging practices (`wikidata`, `start_event`, `end_event`, and `start_date:edtf`). I've taken the liberty of adding a few nodes to demonstrate tagging and changes over time, but please review my work to make sure I haven't made any mistakes! https://www.openhistoricalmap.org/changeset/174334

  Thanks! Jeff

• Comment from jeffmeyer 2 months ago

  And... someone came in after me and added what I had left out... a chronology relation! https://www.openhistoricalmap.org/relation/2858067

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