Very nice feature, would it be possible, by any chance, to add Catalan names, tag name:ca. A lot of streetnames are mapped in two languages, both in Spain as in France.
Skywave On Mon, Mar 9, 2009 at 1:01 PM, D Tucny <[email protected]> wrote: > Hi folks, > > I've been thinking about how it would be good to have the map available in > multiple languages... I think the easiest way to do this with what we have > is using a captionless base layer and transparent caption layers for each of > the languages... So... I put this thinking into practice and put together a > proof of concept at http://osm.newportcoastsoftware.com > > There is a single base, captionless layer and 40 transparent caption > layers, all available only to zoom 8. > > The name tags imported and used to make the different layers are... > > name - The default name > name:ar - Arabic > name:cs - Czech > name:cy - Welsh > name:cz - Typo for Czech > name:da - Danish > name:de - German > name:el - Greek > name:en - English > name:eo - Esperanto > name:es - Spanish > name:fi - Finnish > name:fr - French > name:ga - Irish Gaelic > name:he - Hebrew > name:hi - Hindi (font problems) > name:hr - Croatian > name:hu - Hungarian > name:is - Icelandic > name:it - Italian > name:ja - Japanese > name:ja_rm - Romanised Japanese > name:kl - Kalaalisut (Greenlandic) > name:ko - Korean > name:la - Latin > name:lt - Lithuanian > name:lv - Latvian > name:nl - Dutch > name:pl - Polish > name:ro - Romanian > name:ru - Russian > name:sk - Slovak > name:sl - Slovenian > name:sr - Serbian > name:sv - Swedish > name:th - Thai > name:uk - Ukranian > name:zh - Chinese > name:zh_py - Chinese Pinyin > name:zh_pyt - Chinese Pinyin with tones > > This isn't a list of all available languages in use, but, it was most of > the languages in use for names of countries and cities when I looked... > > Issues: > The layer switcher is quite long with so many layers, so, the map div has > been set to 900px high to fully incorporate it... If less vertical space is > available, you'll get a scroll bar, if more is available, the map won't fill > the window... > > The rendering of Hindi has been broken by missed fonts... It should be > rerendered in a while... > > The tiles are bigger than the live site thanks to them not having been > created at 256 colours, this is due to transparency not currently working > with 256 colour tiles... > > All tiles are prerendered... They don't get updated automatically and they > aren't rendered on request... So if you make changes to OSM, they won't show > up on this map for some time... Also nothing currently available beyond zoom > 8, though I do plan on making certain areas with good examples of multiple > languages available at higher zooms... > > This is just a proof of concept, it will likely disappear at some point... > > If anyone has any suggestions, or sees any problems, let me know... > > Thanks, > > d > > _______________________________________________ > talk mailing list > [email protected] > http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk > >
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