On 2015-10-30 12:29, Oleksiy Muzalyev wrote:
But if we have a vector-based map itself language selection, that we
could just add tags _name:fr_ or _name: ru_ and have the OSM map of
say New York in French or in Russian for tourists. Or map of Siberia
in German also for tourists, Middle East in English, etc. without any
additions cost on the server side. It is not that difficult to add
such multi-language tags. There could be also the map in Basque,
Catalan, Kurdish, Scots and other smaller (by number of speakers)
languages without any additional cost and without a civil conflict.
Again, that does not work. I am Dutch. There are a lot of name:nl tags
in the database that really are too obscure to put on a map.
There is a place "Grevelingen" which we associate with a lake in the
southwest of the country. But it is also the old dutch name for the
french town of Gravelines which nobody uses.
But similarly, I don't want to see the name:en tag for of cities
because, as in my example, I will see Cologne or Brussels or Hook of
Holland, which are all not what I want to see.
So you have to have some kind of mechanisme to decide when to show
name:en (which I want to see for e.g. Afghanistan) and when to show
name.
I realize that mobile hardware is not enough advanced for that yet and
vector-based technology is only in an development stage.
brgds
Oleksiy
On 30.10.2015 12:06, Maarten Deen wrote:
On 2015-10-30 11:53, Oleksiy Muzalyev wrote:
One of the advantages of the the vector-based map would be the
multilingualism.
For instance at the moment the OSM map of the Middle East is
basically
useless for me as I do not know the Arabic alphabet yet. But as
far as
I understand and as I heard at the conference the vector-based map
would allow the choice of a language of the map itself.
I do not see how that can not be solved with png-based tiles. You
only have to render the tiles.
The method for detecting which tileset/language to show is the same.
BTW: it is still not as simple as rendering "in a different
language". Then you start rendering a map in English and see names
like "Cologne" or "Brussels" show up on the map.
Regards,
Maarten
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