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<div class="moz-cite-prefix">I've heard from the OSM operations
team's member at the conference that it is the question of the
servers' infrastructure cost.<br>
<br>
But if we have a vector-based map itself language selection, that
we could just add tags <i>name:fr</i> or <i>name: ru</i> and
have the OSM map of say New York in French or in Russian for
tourists. Or map of Siberia in German also for tourists, Middle
East in English, etc. without any additions cost on the server
side. It is not that difficult to add such multi-language tags.
There could be also the map in Basque, Catalan, <span class="_Tgc
_y9e">Kurdish, Scots and other smaller (by number of speakers)
languages without any additional cost and without a civil
conflict.<br>
<br>
</span>I realize that mobile hardware is not enough advanced for
that yet and vector-based technology is only in an development
stage.<br>
<br>
brgds<br>
Oleksiy<br>
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On 30.10.2015 12:06, Maarten Deen wrote:<br>
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<blockquote cite="mid:e78664cf5eeea3187a1817940595ebf3@xs4all.nl"
type="cite">On 2015-10-30 11:53, Oleksiy Muzalyev wrote:
<br>
<blockquote type="cite">One of the advantages of the the
vector-based map would be the multilingualism.
<br>
<br>
For instance at the moment the OSM map of the Middle East is
basically
<br>
useless for me as I do not know the Arabic alphabet yet. But as
far as
<br>
I understand and as I heard at the conference the vector-based
map
<br>
would allow the choice of a language of the map itself.
<br>
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I do not see how that can not be solved with png-based tiles. You
only have to render the tiles.
<br>
The method for detecting which tileset/language to show is the
same.
<br>
<br>
BTW: it is still not as simple as rendering "in a different
language". Then you start rendering a map in English and see names
like "Cologne" or "Brussels" show up on the map.
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<br>
Regards,
<br>
Maarten
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