Jochen Topf has an experimental site where you can pick the language for the tags, see http://mlm.jochentopf.com/
regards m On Mon, Dec 21, 2015 at 5:07 PM, Toby Murray <[email protected]> wrote: > 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 _______________________________________________ Talk-us mailing list [email protected] https://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk-us
