>I would love to be able to see a map with München (Munich) on it. I am going >there on vacation, but I don't speak German. It would be handy to know the >real name for the places I only know the English name of.
Exactly what I was thinking. Copying the idea of open.mapquest.co.uk would work, I think. The only change I would like would be to have the local name before the English. "Brussels (Bruxelles - Brussel)" does look messy, but "Vienna (Wien)" is great. Cheers, Joseph On 16 April 2012 14:47, Andrew Errington <[email protected]>wrote: > On Mon, 16 Apr 2012 22:32:14 Maarten Deen wrote: > > On 2012-04-16 14:15, Joseph Reeves wrote: > > > As for Korea: > > >>Should we add name:ko=서울특별시? > > >> > > > >Otherwise, how do we know the Korean name for this city? > > > > > > It seems to me that adding name:ko is duplicating data. We should be > > > using the local names for the name: tag, so the Korean can go in > > > there. I would then have this rendered as "name= (name:en=)" on the > > > osm.org [8] mapnik tiles. Such a system could presumably be used > > > worldwide (although I'm sure there are plenty of people that would > > > disagree). Having said that, adding name:ko= isn't going to hurt and > > > may be of use to other data consumers. > > > > Hopefully with worldwide you mean only the countries that do not use > > latin script. It would not be pretty to see München (Munich) or worse: > > Bruxelles - Brussel (Brussels). > > I would love to be able to see a map with München (Munich) on it. I am > going > there on vacation, but I don't speak German. It would be handy to know the > real name for the places I only know the English name of. > > I'm not advocating this for 'Standard' map tiles at osm.org, but some > feature > from some map service whereby I can get a nice map labelled with one or two > languages of my choice. > > Best wishes, > > Andrew > > _______________________________________________ > talk mailing list > [email protected] > http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk >
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