On Tue, Oct 28, 2008 at 5:50 PM, H. S. Rai <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Tue, Oct 28, 2008 at 10:51 PM, Dave Stubbs > >> name:pa=ਪੰਜਾਬੀ > > Thanks to all who responded for quick reply. > > I put a test point as city with name as "Hardeep" at > lat=30.837211425333344 lon=75.8676322614175 If you can help giving any > name say in Hindi and English there. > >> For actual renderings of these someone will need to render a special map. > > But China has their name in their language on openstreetmap.org >
They use the Chinese name in the simple "name" tag (ie: the default name). If your area's "normal" language is Hindi, then you use the Hindi name in that tag and add the English name in name:en. so: name:en=English name:hi=हिंदी name=हिंदी So then it's the English people who need the special map! You only have a problem where you have more than one language commonly used in the same area, and both sets of people want their language shown. There may be a problem with some of the map renderings and Indic scripts though. It took quite a lot of effort from the developers to get chinese characters and arabic characters to show up correctly on the Mapnik map. _______________________________________________ newbies mailing list [email protected] http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/newbies
