On 17/08/16 14:55, Nicholas Doiron wrote: > OpenStreetMap is fortunate to have a large, multilingual community. We > store a "name" tag for local names (sometimes two scripts are used, as > in Morocco) and we use "name:en" and other tags to store names from > other languages. > > In many parts of OpenStreetMap, we have places labeled English-first, or > local placenames without alternate names (eg China). I hesitate to call > this a /problem /for OSM/HOT, but it could be an interest for expanding > OSM's reach and involving partners. > > Today I set up a prototype on http://city-namer.herokuapp.com/ - it uses > Overpass to pick places with a name but no name:[lang] tag. States, > districts, and cities are sorted to appear before neighborhoods and hamlets. > Currently this doesn't edit anything... it dumps into a database. But if > you're interested in making this into a crowd-naming project, please > contact me or glom onto the GitHub https://github.com/Georeactor/city-namer
For those who don't know, Sven Geggus has written a PostgreSQL function to automatically transliterate non-latin names into latin alphabet, so that there'll always been a "latin" name to display on a map. This is visible on the German style. e.g.: https://www.openstreetmap.de/karte.html?zoom=18&lat=35.62024&lon=51.39527&layers=B000TF The code has changed around, but I think this is it now https://github.com/giggls/mapnik-german-l10n _______________________________________________ HOT mailing list HOT@openstreetmap.org https://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/hot
