A better link directly to Japanese interface: http://toolserver.org/~kolossos/openlayers/kml-on-ol-json3.php?lang=ja&zoom=3&lat=50.51632&lon=5.85569&layers=0B0000TFFF
On Fri, Oct 26, 2012 at 10:41 AM, Daniel Kastl <[email protected]>wrote: > 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 > -- Georepublic UG & Georepublic Japan eMail: [email protected] Web: http://georepublic.de
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