Re: [Talk-in] Multilingual name tagging convention in India

> > So, in some cases name:en doesn't seem to exist (or maybe I'm wrong?) > > Certainly possible, there have been cases where a new contributor has replaced the English name in the `name` tag with the localized name, and others where the mapper seemed to have contributed directly in the local

Re: [Talk-in] Multilingual name tagging convention in India

Interesting discussion. Currently it seems the name tag by default may not be English in some places (in India) and the name:en tag may not exist. eg: http://home.braddock.com:28112/osm/slippymap.html The ordering of labels was COALESCE(tags->'name:en', tags->'name:hi', tags->'int_name', name)

Re: [Talk-in] Multilingual name tagging convention in India

Some time back, I did some quick research on how we officially recorded the names of places in India, might be an interesting read: https://gist.github.com/planemad/decdf608776726de1007 Related projects that could help expand language coverage in India is attempting latin to indic language and

Re: [Talk-in] Multilingual name tagging convention in India

Moved some old instructions for setting up a tileserver that Johnson wrote to https://github.com/osm-in/tileserver Anyone interested in setting up a custom tileserver with Indic language rendering, please feel free to expand. On Thu, Jul 14, 2016 at 12:16 AM, Chetan H A

Re: [Talk-in] Multilingual name tagging convention in India

I totally agree to follow current convention we have now. Multilingual names can't be supported in India. We have 22 official languages in India and If every language names were added with English names will clutter the map. It's good to add separately using " name:lang=* " tag.

Re: [Talk-in] Multilingual name tagging convention in India

Not having map tiles available for the various languages is definitely a problem, which motivates one to tag in such a way just so that the local name is visible. Efforts to create an Indic language tileserver have not really taken off, and probably this is what we should reconsider with more

Re: [Talk-in] Multilingual name tagging convention in India

I too agree with keeping the current convention of name tags for multilingual names. Belgium has just two languages and in context of our regional languages, first mapper rule can create conflicts as Arun indicated previously. Perhaps we should try to improve the current state of multilingual

Re: [Talk-in] Multilingual name tagging convention in India

Found a little more about this topic in a discussion here . We could put the details about multilingual naming for India in this page . So that

Re: [Talk-in] Multilingual name tagging convention in India

I think the existing convention works really well. Use name tag for latin script and specific language tag for that language names. I think this makes it easy to work and also divide work. On Jul 4, 2016 11:34 PM, "Arun Ganesh" wrote: > Bringing this up since there