After looking up several other towns in other countries and checking their name settings in OSM I will redefine my suggestion: When "Map preferred language" is "Local names" then use the OSM "name" tag without suffix, e.g. "name=Nancy". When "Map preferred language" is language xx then use "name:xx". But do never use old_name.
Regards Bruno Am Freitag, 7. Juli 2017 18:40:51 UTC+2 schrieb Bruno Passauer: > > For several towns in France (and perhaps in other countries too) the map > in OSMAND shows outdated and (for todays users) unknown names when the > device is configured for German language and OSMAND is told to use "Local > names" on maps. > So, for example: Nancy is shown as Nanzig, Besancon as Bisanz, Dijon as > Dision, etc. > The old names are shown at zoom level 11 and below. From zoom level 12 and > up the correct French names are displayed. > These strange names are defined in OpenStreetMap for these towns as > "old_name:de". > > I bet that 99% of the last 2 or 3 generations of Germans do not know > Nanzig or Dision, and at Bisanz they would probably think of the old East > Roman Empire. > I might (with strong reluctance) accept these names when the "Map > preferred language" is set to German. > But when the setting is "Local names" then I definitely expect the map to > display the local names, i.e. the names used in France. > > My suggestion for OSMAND is to use always the normal name tag from OSM, > which in the case of Nancy is "name:de=Nancy". > Ignore the "old_name" tags at all !!! > > Regards, Bruno > -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Osmand" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
