On Thu, May 13, 2010 at 8:46 AM, Adam Glauser <[email protected]> wrote: > On 12/05/2010 10:13 PM, Richard Weait wrote: >> Are there bilingual road signs in Ottawa? > > Yes. For example: > > http://bit.ly/9Y8JDn * > > This can lead to humourous situations when anglos like myself are > absentminded. Shortly after moving to Ottawa, when driving around > looking for a particular address, someone was heard to remark "I think > we just passed Rue Street".
Excellent, Adam. I'm reminded of a person, newly arrived in bilingual Canada, and instructed to buy some "Soda, anything but grape." You guessed it. An entire case of "Raisin" soda and an unhappy partner. Here is a link to the map. As I mentioned earlier it has known drawbacks. Where no name:fr exists I did not fall back to name, so many objects are blank. However, we do get a nice look at many countries and major cities with their names en français. Please, let's keep this link just between us on talk-ca. No reason to shout it to the world until we've improved it, eh? I'll improve this map this week. I'll add a layer with fallback-name and perhaps some other goodies. http://weait.com:8080/map/ Additional known issues: - this site is slow (rate-limited) - this site will fall over without warning Now that we can see name:fr, and our provinces look pretty good, would anybody like to add name:fr for the states of our neighbour to the south? _______________________________________________ Talk-ca mailing list [email protected] http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk-ca
