Am 09.03.2009 13:01, D Tucny: > 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.
Nice PoC, but it's surfacing some of the problems we still have with localization: I didn't explicitly tag the german names for countries where german doesn't differ from the loca "name=..." to avoid redundancy. I think the german layer should use these source for names in this order: 1.) name:de 2.) int_name 3.) name I haven't checked for the mapnik syntax to do so, but maybe you could render it for one language as an example. Regards, Claudius _______________________________________________ talk mailing list [email protected] http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk
