Hi Nick, This sound really cool, I will check it out! Thank you very much for creating it.
Cheers, Blake On Sat, Sep 10, 2016 at 5:23 AM, Nicholas Doiron <[email protected]> wrote: > 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 > > > > _______________________________________________ > HOT mailing list > [email protected] > https://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/hot > _______________________________________________ HOT mailing list [email protected] https://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/hot
