We have the same sort of thing in Canada. Ottawa is a particular problem as the streets have both an English name and a French name.
The way I've set up Ottawa is to use name="Albert Street" and name:fr"rue Albert." The normal rendering systems show the English name but I have a set of rules set up in Maperitive that displays the name:fr values if desired. http://www.openstreetmap.org/?lat=45.42033&lon=-75.6927&zoom=16&layers=O shows the normal English display. To get the French you need to use a different rendering system such as custom rules with Maperitive. The link with an off-line map of Ottawa and the Maperitive rules is here. https://docs.google.com/document/d/1WkJzx5NffRv0TIQgCFFGTQzyqbQ9XDphSLqcjuM8wGM/edit?hl=en_US If you have a dig in the wiki that's the recommended method. Cheerio John On 30 May 2011 20:30, Robin Paulson <[email protected]> wrote: > i live in nz, a country with two (three if you count sign langauge) > government-approved languages: english and maori. > > lots of items are named in both, for example the highest volcano in > auckland is called Mount Eden/Manugawhau - the latter literally > translates as "hill of the whau tree" > > so, when i name it, i get something like this: > name:en=Mount Eden > name:mi=Maungawhau > > so, what do i put for name=? > > anything at all? > it is mostly known as mount eden, so is it that? > > some things are more commonly known by their maori name than their > english name, e.g.: > name:mi=Te Araroa > name:en=The Long Path > > so, it Te Araroa in the name= tag? > > and then, some only have a maori name. for example, Pukekohe. do i name it > > name:mi=Pukekohe > or > name:en=Pukekohe > or > name=Pukekohe > > or some combination of these? > > we also have Auckland, which sits in an area known as "Tamaki", > although the latter is not clearly enough defined to allow it to be > rationally mapped as the city of auckland is*. what to do here? > > * which makes a nice commentary on the whole highly political nature > of mapping, and how a map is a not a benign concept. > > cheers > > -- > robin > > http://bumblepuppy.org/blog/?p=237 - government bill to remove basic > human rights in NZ > > _______________________________________________ > talk mailing list > [email protected] > http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk > _______________________________________________ talk mailing list [email protected] http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk
