Am 18.08.2010 10:31, schrieb Stephan Knauss:
It's complicated because different languages take up different space on
the map. So the placement of icons is not trivial.

I did the multilingual overlays on the Toolserver.

My first approach was to kick out all Symbolizers from the OSM Style that were no TextSymbolizers. This resulted in Text on the overlays overlapping POI-Icons.

The second approach, that's the one that is currently online, renders all TextSymbolizer and all PointSymbolizer but with the PointSymbolizer set to opacity=0.

Ævar had a great Idea for a third approach:
Only objects that actually have a translation need to be in the language overlay -- all other objects like most streets can go into the base layer. That way the language overlay would become nearly empty on higher zoom levels.

To do this, you need a fast way to find objects with translations. To be able to do this I comitted a patch to osm2pgsql that allows you to create hstore-columns for subtags, eg. a column "name:" that is null if no "name:xx"-tag is available and that contains a hstore with the translations otherwise.

You can then create a conditional index like
CREATE INDEX bla ON points (osm_id) WHERE NOT "name:" IS NULL;

to have a fast lookup for translated items.

I did a planet import with this column on the Toolserver and developed a style for it but never got around to complete this work.

If you or some other wants to talk about this technical point, please come over to osm-dev.

Peter

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