Tigrinya is spoken more often than English in Eritrea, so this probably should be reverted.

I think I added another space for some extra space (maybe so that the Arabic and English are not on the same line that they are rendered). Will see how it turns out in a few months (or 1 month) when it finally renders.

On OSM.

Egypt is written in both English and Arabic, for example.

No, it is the name described on the 162 bus.

I didn't know there was a difference.

Well, with many countries (such as Egypt, Libya, Morocco) there are 2 names - for example: Morocco is written in Arabic, Berber and French on OSM.

Thanks for replying - I really did not expect any replies.

Oh okay.

Who is Vespucci? Sorry if I'm causing you trouble, but I'm curious......

I thought OSM requires you to put a changeset comment (in the old days, people did not have to).

You put (no comment) or?

You are now required to state your objective - how did you escape? (no comment)?

How did you do that?

Was your source? See here: changeset/37353298. Chris had to delete the school.

I did not know all of that at the time. Sorry.

See comment on changeset/37716055 - the same applies here.

"There are a couple of reasons why we can't use wikipedia as a source. One is that wikipedia is cc-by-sa licensed, and that licence is incompatible with OSM.

The other is that what OSM calls a "city" is described on place=city . Wikipedia essentially just records what the city calls itself (or strictly speaking what someone has reported the city as calling itself).

place=city even says "Smaller charter cities should normally be tagged using place=town to avoid these places being promoted too highly in gazetteer search results. According to OSM the population here is 4167, which even for Alaska counts as "smaller".
It should also be noted that admin levels and "place" levels are something that should be discussed within an OSM community - having someone coming in from outside and applying what are essentially random values without discussion just makes OSM data harder to use and OSM harder to edit for the people who _are_ trying to work together."

Same applies here, right?

"What the place describes itself as is essentially irrelevant in OSM terms. If local OSM mappers think that it deserves to be a city, then it does. Previous to your edit, it's actually spent time in OSM as both town and city. It's original "city" status seems to have come directly from https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cities_of_Australia , and there are a bunch of places on there that I've been to that I don't think should qualify as "cities" in OSM terms - Rockingham and Fremantle are obvious examples (both currently "towns" in OSM).
I'd suggest discussing it on the talk-au list."