Follow-up on this OSM name localization project: I created a "Task Manager"-like interface to create projects. You can sign in with your OSM account: http://names.georeactor.com/projects
People without an OSM account can use Facebook Messenger. Send a message to http://m.me/osmcitynamer (if you don't have the Messenger app, try https://www.facebook.com/osmcitynamer/ ) *These projects do not edit OSM yet*! I am working on a system to compare multiple users' answers first. Regards, Nick Doiron On Thu, Aug 18, 2016 at 8:24 AM, Rory McCann <[email protected]> wrote: > 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 > [email protected] > https://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/hot >
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