Am 12.01.2014 18:30, schrieb Christoph Hormann: > > The problems with the fonts are not at all limited to CJK - Arabic and > other languages using Arabic script are not well readable either. As > Hans Schmidt said much of this is related to size - in a unified font > the non-latin scripts are usually arbitrarily scaled to fit into a > latin line geometry. > > In your demo the alternative fallbacks do not seem to contain Arabic > characters - the missing glyphs are however often the ones worst to > read in the normal rendering (although the other ones are not great > either). >
Yes, as I said (actually I have done this several times before :D): Create custom style sheets for every country. Even Germany could use a different style sheet than UK. The matter is even more severe for completely other countries. Let every country/language group create their own style sheet (own colours, own fonts etc) which will be active in their country. The OSM web page should then use *those* stylesheets when rendering the global map. A common style sheet guide can help creating a familiar “OSM style” over country borders, but it can still be changed to make country specific changes possible. A large and difficult change in the software? Yes. The only way to make OSM really globally usuable? In my opinion definitely. Take a look at Google Maps, where every country looks slightly different, but still has a common appearance. Start a fund raising campain for this. I would definitely spend money for that. Or, if you are fine with restricting OSM only to Europe/America, then this is fine as well. But then don’t call OSM a “map of the world”. _______________________________________________ talk mailing list [email protected] https://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk
