Just wanted to forward this email, because I think it affects Japan. I'm very glad to see multi-lingual maps, but again I'm worried about many "name" tags in Japan, which are like "name=東京 (Tokyo)". In my opinion this is not so good idea, because it's tagged for the OSM renderer. But I know there was a discussion about this already.
It would be better to "fix the renderer" to provide maps in multiple languages, like the example below: Daniel ---------- Forwarded message ---------- From: Kolossos <[email protected]> Date: Fri, Oct 26, 2012 at 5:27 AM Subject: [OSM-talk] Translating the world To: [email protected] Hello, in the last two weeks I translated all countries in all languages that are available in the unicode-Project CLDR[1]. For this I used Overpass-API link for country codes ISO3166-1[2]. In the second step I translated all capitals in tons of languages by using InterWikiLinks of Wikipedia and Addtags[3] together with Overpass-API[4] and Nominatim. You can check the results for zoom levels 0-6 with map on Wikimedia-toolserver[5], by changing languages under "options" (You can use up- and down-key). I hope I didn't make more mistakes than native speaker would do by hand. These things were a small step to support multilingual-maps[6] on low zoom levels. For the next steps more people are necessary. In my eyes it seems useful to work as next step on the regions that are regulated in ISO3166-2, but we have no clean tagging schema for this. A source for translation could by a debian project[7], but I need to clarify the legal aspects. Other important thing would be to translate large cities or isles. Any comments and ideas? Greetings Tim alias Kolossos [1]http://cldr.unicode.org/ [2]http://taginfo.**openstreetmap.org/keys/**country_code_iso3166_1_alpha_2<http://taginfo.openstreetmap.org/keys/country_code_iso3166_1_alpha_2> [3]http://wiki.openstreetmap.**org/wiki/JOSM/Plugins/** RemoteControl/Add-tags<http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/JOSM/Plugins/RemoteControl/Add-tags> [4]http://taginfo.**openstreetmap.org/tags/**capital=yes<http://taginfo.openstreetmap.org/tags/capital=yes> [5] http://toolserver.org/~**kolossos/openlayers/kml-on-ol-** json3.php?lang=en&zoom=3&lat=**50.51632&lon=5.85569&layers=**0B0000TFFF<http://toolserver.org/~kolossos/openlayers/kml-on-ol-json3.php?lang=en&zoom=3&lat=50.51632&lon=5.85569&layers=0B0000TFFF> [6]http://wiki.openstreetmap.**org/wiki/Multilingual_maps_** Wikipedia_project<http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Multilingual_maps_Wikipedia_project> [7]http://pkg-isocodes.alioth.**debian.org/<http://pkg-isocodes.alioth.debian.org/> ______________________________**_________________ talk mailing list [email protected] http://lists.openstreetmap.**org/listinfo/talk<http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk> -- Georepublic UG & Georepublic Japan eMail: [email protected] Web: http://georepublic.de
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