[Kstars-devel] Cities.dat corrections

[Khudyakov Alexey]

В сообщении от 06 сентября 2009 12:32:45 автор Burkhard Lück написал:
> Argh, you are both right, english spelling should be here.
> 
> Mu"nchen and Ko"ln should be "Munich" and "Cologne", but what about german
> cities with umlauts (ÜÄÖ)?
> 
> Found these german cities in Cities.dat:
> 
> Düsseldorf,Gütersloh,Lübeck,Meuselbach-Schwarzmühle,Mülheim,Münster,Nürnber
> g, Osnabrück,Saarbrücken,Würzburg.
> 
> Markranstät,Meiän,Mengersgereuth-Hämern,Mieäste
> 
> Gönsdorf,Göttingen,Mönchengladbach
> 
> http://en.wikipedia.org spells all of them - if known - with Umlauts, just
> with one exception: Nürnberg is spelled Nuremberg.
> 
> So what is the reference spelling? http://en.wikipedia.org?
> 
AFAIK diacritical signs are used in English on some occasions. So I think it's 
OK to left then as it is. (Nuremberg should be corrected)

Wikipedia is not _really_ authoritative source but I think is good enough.

 
> That seems to be a duplicated entry.
> latitude/longitude i found:
> http://en.wikipedia.org 50 57 0 N 06 58 0 E
> http://stable.toolserver.org/geohack/ 50° 57′ 0″ N, 6° 58′ 0″ E
> http://www.netzwelt.de/geocoding/index.html (Center of Cologne)
> 50° 56' 26.3921" 6° 57' 35.6813"
> 
> So this should be
> Cologne :  : Germany  : 50 : 57 : 00 : N :   6 : 58 :  0 : E : 1.0  : EU
> 
I removed it.