Hi Jonathan, That would be extremely cool. Do you have an idea of the costs involved in setting this up for the area you mention and for the whole world?
I think if we can have a demo by SOTM, we might find someone to sponsor it there. Joost 2016-08-09 12:39 GMT+02:00 Jonathan Beliën <[email protected]>: > Hi everyone, > > > > Good point indeed. > > > > It’s not very complicated to generate a custom rendering. For example, I > did it for BeNeLux + France + Germany using imposm 3 (https://imposm.org/ > ) and MapServer + MapProxy for rendering. > > > > My rendering use « default » names but I could have used NL name or FR > names as needed. > > > > It works quite well and it’s not too complicated (even with a recurring > update). The only problem is the disk space those « tiles » use on the > server. It’s already quite big for the small area I cover (BeNeLux + north > of France + west of Germany) ; I can’t imagine the number of tiles if we > want to cover the whole world. > > > > I do not know how to organize that but we could have a « Belgium OSM > rendering FR » and a « Belgium OSM rendering NL » created, hosted and > maintained by « OSM.be ». > > > > Jonathan Beliën > > GEO-6 > > > > *De :* joost schouppe [mailto:[email protected]] > *Envoyé :* mardi 9 août 2016 11:38 > *À :* OpenStreetMap Belgium > *Objet :* [OSM-talk-be] OSM in French and Dutch > *Importance :* Haute > > > > Hi, > > > > Someone asked on Twitter about a rendering of OSM in Dutch and French to > avoid the clutter of bilingual names in the standard rendering. > > > > https://twitter.com/iciBrussels/status/762743820358418432 > > > > The French render is easy, OSM France provides it. But how about a Dutch > rendering? Do you know of one? > > > > It might be cool to create a little webmap on OSM.be with the three > official languages. If you help me find a Dutch rendering, I can make that > (I've just learned the basics about leaflet). > > > > It looks rather easy to make a style with mapbox, but you need to extract > the data through Overpass for exotic languages like Dutch, so it would be a > bit of a job to keep that up to date. > > > > -- > > Joost @ > > Openstreetmap <http://www.openstreetmap.org/user/joost%20schouppe/> | > Twitter <https://twitter.com/joostjakob> | LinkedIn > <https://www.linkedin.com/pub/joost-schouppe/48/939/603> | Meetup > <http://www.meetup.com/OpenStreetMap-Belgium/members/97979802/> > -- Joost @ Openstreetmap <http://www.openstreetmap.org/user/joost%20schouppe/> | Twitter <https://twitter.com/joostjakob> | LinkedIn <https://www.linkedin.com/pub/joost-schouppe/48/939/603> | Meetup <http://www.meetup.com/OpenStreetMap-Belgium/members/97979802/>
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