[OSM-dev] osmarender patch - Better support for non-english/multi-lang areas

2009-03-11 Thread Tal
http://trac.openstreetmap.org/ticket/1643 I've uploaded a patch for osmarender which support two new features: 1. preferedLanguages parameter. if preferedLanguages=:en,:de,,:he osmarender will use the first of avaiable tags from: name:en,name:de,name,name:he name is just an

Re: [OSM-dev] osmarender patch - Better support for non-english/multi-lang areas

2009-03-11 Thread Dave Stubbs
2009/3/11 Tal tal@gmail.com: 2. Support making one tag be exactly the same as another tag using the following construct:         name:he=hebrew text         name=$(name:he)   This is not full variable expansion, just the ability for tag A to say: i have exactly the same value as tag B.

Re: [OSM-dev] osmarender patch - Better support for non-english/multi-lang areas

2009-03-11 Thread Tal
On Wed, Mar 11, 2009 at 4:43 PM, Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason ava...@gmail.com wrote: This will result in the very commonly used name=* tag becoming useless for anyone that doesn't support this ad-hoc macro language once this starts being entered into the database. It will only be useless for

Re: [OSM-dev] osmarender patch - Better support for non-english/multi-lang areas

2009-03-11 Thread Dave Stubbs
2009/3/11 Tal tal@gmail.com: On Wed, Mar 11, 2009 at 4:43 PM, Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason ava...@gmail.com wrote: This will result in the very commonly used name=* tag becoming useless for anyone that doesn't support this ad-hoc macro language once this starts being entered into the

Re: [OSM-dev] osmarender patch - Better support for non-english/multi-lang areas

2009-03-11 Thread Dave Stubbs
2009/3/11 Tal tal@gmail.com: On Wed, Mar 11, 2009 at 4:53 PM, Dave Stubbs osm.l...@randomjunk.co.uk wrote: Don't encourage people to try to insert random crap in free form tags such as name. It is no more crap than your answer ;) It is an attempt to offer a better solution to a serious

Re: [OSM-dev] osmarender patch - Better support for non-english/multi-lang areas

2009-03-11 Thread Andy Allan
On Wed, Mar 11, 2009 at 12:33 PM, Tal tal@gmail.com wrote: 2. Support making one tag be exactly the same as another tag using the following construct:         name:he=hebrew text         name=$(name:he)   This is not full variable expansion, just the ability for tag A to say: i have

Re: [OSM-dev] osmarender patch - Better support for non-english/multi-lang areas

2009-03-11 Thread Tal
On Wed, Mar 11, 2009 at 6:53 PM, Dave Stubbs osm.l...@randomjunk.co.uk wrote: Yes. Yes we do. What we don't do is mis-tag for the renderer. We don't tag construction sites as landuse=allotments because we like the colour mapnik uses to render allotments. We do however tag things with

Re: [OSM-dev] osmarender patch - Better support for non-english/multi-lang areas

2009-03-11 Thread Tal
On Wed, Mar 11, 2009 at 6:46 PM, Dave Stubbs osm.l...@randomjunk.co.uk wrote: Oh and I'll update my threat from the no-names thread of ages ago: if you start doing this I'll make it my life's work to get on the local council to name as many features as possible as $(name:fr) with an

Re: [OSM-dev] osmarender patch - Better support for non-english/multi-lang areas

2009-03-11 Thread Tal
On Wed, Mar 11, 2009 at 7:37 PM, Andy Allan gravityst...@gmail.com wrote: On Wed, Mar 11, 2009 at 12:33 PM, Tal tal@gmail.com wrote: 2. Support making one tag be exactly the same as another tag using the following construct:         name:he=hebrew text         name=$(name:he)   This is

Re: [OSM-dev] osmarender patch - Better support for non-english/multi-lang areas

2009-03-11 Thread Eddy Petrișor
Tal a scris: On Wed, Mar 11, 2009 at 7:37 PM, Andy Allan gravityst...@gmail.com wrote: On Wed, Mar 11, 2009 at 12:33 PM, Tal tal@gmail.com wrote: 2. Support making one tag be exactly the same as another tag using the following construct: name:he=hebrew text

Re: [josm-dev] Dropped arrows / visualize node connectivity

2009-03-11 Thread Dirk Stöcker
On Tue, 10 Mar 2009, Florian Lohoff wrote: Why? It would look exactly the same even if there are two overlaying nodes in the middle. The most common error i stumble upon is unconnected ways. Duplicate nodes are rare in comparison. So visualizing connections more prominently might reduce

Re: [josm-dev] Dropped arrows / visualize node connectivity

2009-03-11 Thread Florian Lohoff
On Wed, Mar 11, 2009 at 08:03:31AM +0100, Dirk Stöcker wrote: Subject: Re: [josm-dev] Dropped arrows / visualize node connectivity On Tue, 10 Mar 2009, Florian Lohoff wrote: Why? It would look exactly the same even if there are two overlaying nodes in the middle. The most common

Re: [josm-dev] Dropped arrows / visualize node connectivity

2009-03-11 Thread Florian Lohoff
On Wed, Mar 11, 2009 at 11:41:55AM +0100, Dirk Stöcker wrote: You can reduce the validator checks, when you select data before pressing Validate. You know? I know ;) At least this report i would not contribute to my lazyness, ignorance or missing experience - Although i had other bug reports