On Jan 9, 2008 3:17 PM, Dave Stubbs <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Jan 9, 2008 2:06 PM, Stefan Baebler <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Hi! > > > > I'd imagine that OSM's "as on ground" rule for primary names should > > also apply for country nodes (tagged with place=country), however this > > doesn't seem to be the case at the moment. > > http://osmxapi.hypercube.telascience.org/api/0.5/node%5bplace=country%5d > > shows that primary names are english names for most of the countries. > > > > Any thoughts? > > Do we bend the rule here in favor of english over local name? > > How about multilingual countries (eg. Switzerland) > > > I suspect that this has more to do with them not actually being > rendered by anything (certainly not osmarender, nor mapnik), and also > by them being almost impossible to find during normal map editing (due > to their extremely small size compared to what they represent).
My proposed new version of lowzoom for [EMAIL PROTECTED] will render country names. > > Italy doesn't even have "Italia" /anywhere/ in it's description. > > I don't know what people are actually using them for, but i suspect > they'll all get heavily edited now that you've pointed them out. > There are 38 place=country tags in the database. There are over 75 country based wiki-projects. We could do with a few more country tags being added I guess. > > _______________________________________________ > talk mailing list > [email protected] > http://lists.openstreetmap.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/talk >
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