2009/2/28 Dirk Stöcker <[email protected]> > On Fri, 27 Feb 2009, Dermot McNally wrote: > > 2009/2/27 Dirk Stöcker <[email protected]>: >> >> The correct form would be to display the major name larger and the less >>> important name smaller below and in brackets. >>> >>> e.g. >>> Praha >>> (Prague) >>> >> >> Let's be careful about doing things just because other (less clever) >> maps do them. We already have one example of this, in the linear scale >> - just as I have no need for miles on the linear scale, I also don't >> need to see both Praha and Prague on the map. A much better solution, >> IMHO, is to focus on ways of allowing easy switching between favoured >> languages as you later allude to. >> > > Yes, but > a) Bilungual maps are helpful also beside the t...@h, so an infrastructure > would be fine. > b) I think we will have some way to go until we have user-choosen > language, so it is also a much more better shortterm solution. > > If you have a look at http://osm.newportcoastsoftware.com there's prerendered mapnik rendered map with a captionless base layer and a number of transparent background caption layers with different languages... At the moment the language options are limited to default (name), name:en, name:zh, name:zh_py, name:zh_pyt, name:ja and name:ja_rm with fall back to default name for each... the world is rendered to zoom 7 and most of asia to zoom 12 with one city at the moment to zoom 17, areas of higher zoom are indicated by OL boxes... This was set up as a proof of concept for having user selectable language layers... As a next step, I'm considering removing fall back and increasing the number of languages supported...
Just wanted to show, b) doesn't have to be a long way off :) d
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