Hello Macedonian OSM users!
I am really delighted to see Blagoja asking for the creation of this Macedonian subforum. I was really amazed to see the recent fast growth of OSM in Macedonia, which a few months ago was still quite empty. It is definitely a good thing that you now have an “official” place where you can discuss in your own language all the little and big issues about how to code the OSM map inside Macedonia. Here just a few that come to my mind:
- Naming conventions: what alphabet and characters (e.g. š, sh or s) to use in the name tags such as name, name:mk, name:en and int_name?
- How to best handle the asymmetrical “street names” that e.g. are used in Kruševo, where the street address is often different on the two sides of a residential street?
- Specific Macedonian road classification rules?
It’s quite important to find a consensus on such question, if we want to finish with one single big consistent map, instead of many pieces of a map, each with different a “look and feel”.
Hoping that this forum will soon become an active meeting place for all Macedonian OSM contributors - best wishes, Heinz