On Fri, Dec 11, 2009 at 7:03 AM, H.S.Rai <[email protected]> wrote:
> I hope within a week or so, OSMI will able to render in local > language. By default, will it render in English or Hindi. > > What about regional languages? > > How we should name? > http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Map_Features#Name > > At moment name has been entered in Hindi and English for one tag, for > many features, like: > > name: Hindi name (English Name) > > I feel that is not the right approach. > I disagree. This is very helpful as it helps both english literate and vernacular literate to read the maps simultaneously. Yes it clutters the map but we need to restrain such namings to a few important landmarks that characterizes a city/town/village. > > We should tag: > > name English name > name:in Hindi Name > name:pb Punjabi Name > > Then rendering rule should able render as per our choice. > The multi language tagging surely helps. Unless we have multiple language renderer's this will not be helpful. The right question to be asked is should we have one renderer per language if yes then how do we implement it? en.openstreetmap.in hi.openstreetmap.in pb.openstreetmap.in ta.openstreetmap.in kn.openstreetmap.in - P
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