Yeah, the tiles on osm.org just straight up render the name=* tag which is supposed to contain the name of an object in the primary language of the area that it is in.
I know Wikipedia has done some work on localizing maps. I believe the way they do it is to render a map without any labels and then have language-specific layers that have nothing but the names on them. The client chooses which name layer to load on top of the label-less base layer. I'm guessing there are better ways to handle this if you go the route of using vector tiles instead of bitmaps... Toby On Mon, Dec 21, 2015 at 9:40 AM, Steve Friedl <[email protected]> wrote: > Mapping tiles are not generated on a per-user basis; they are generated for > all users and shared. The rendering software has to make intelligent > decisions about how to make the maps look reasonable for everybody, and my > suspicion is that things like city names are chosen from the local language > of the country that the city is within, on the grounds that most people > looking at a city live in the country. > > > > It would be great if tiles were rendered customly for everybody (I’d be able > to see elevations in feet instead of meters), but that’s not how this one > works. > > > > Steve > > > > From: Alan Bragg [mailto:[email protected]] > Sent: Monday, December 21, 2015 7:32 AM > To: [email protected] Openstreetmap <[email protected]> > Subject: [Talk-us] Why do city names display in the local language at > osm.org? > > > > My preferred language is set to "en" > > For example Florence Italy displays as Firenze even though it's tagged with > many languages including en:Florence > > I get the same display in both the chrome and internet explorer browsers. > > > > > > > _______________________________________________ > Talk-us mailing list > [email protected] > https://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk-us > _______________________________________________ Talk-us mailing list [email protected] https://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk-us
