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<div class="moz-cite-prefix">On 2016-08-09 11:37, joost schouppe
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<div dir="ltr">Hi,
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<div>Someone asked on Twitter about a rendering of OSM in Dutch
and French to avoid the clutter of bilingual names in the
standard rendering.</div>
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<div><a moz-do-not-send="true"
href="https://twitter.com/iciBrussels/status/762743820358418432">https://twitter.com/iciBrussels/status/762743820358418432</a></div>
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<div>The French render is easy, OSM France provides it. But how
about a Dutch rendering? Do you know of one?</div>
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<div>It might be cool to create a little webmap on OSM.be with
the three official languages. If you help me find a Dutch
rendering, I can make that (I've just learned the basics about
leaflet).</div>
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<div>It looks rather easy to make a style with mapbox, but you
need to extract the data through Overpass for exotic languages
like Dutch, so it would be a bit of a job to keep that up to
date.<br>
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I don't understand exactly what the problem is.<br>
OSM.org displays the names according to the Language preference of
the browser (1).<br>
Precisely, it displays a name in the first language of that
preference that matches one in the map.<br>
Else, it displays the common default name.<br>
E. g. if the preference is fr,ru :<br>
if name:fr exists, display it, else if name:ru exists, display it,
else display name.<br>
Hence, to reliably display Dutch, the preference must be nl,... and
name:nl must exist.<br>
Or name=* must be in Dutch, but see gotcha.<br>
That is a gotcha, of course. If name=French_name has been coded and
a good soul adds mane:ru=<span id="result_box" class="short_text"
lang="ru"><span class=""></span><span class="">России_</span></span><span
id="result_box" class="short_text" lang="ru"><span class="">имя,
the fr,ru French speaker accepting Russian will see the Russian
name. When adding name:ru=*, name:fr=* must also be added.</span><span
class=""></span></span><br>
This is especially strange in a region like Brussels.<br>
The law says that the names must be written in both fr and nl.<br>
But no Belgian sees that because their preference uses fr or nl.
Only foreigners do.<br>
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So, what could be improved is<br>
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<li>a &ln=<languages> in the OSM.org URL to force the
preference and do without (1)<br>
</li>
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<li>assuming a name:ll=* tag equal to name=* where ll is the
only language of the names</li>
<li>or running a bot to add the name:ll=* names automatically<br>
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<p> Cheers <br>
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(1) or the simulation of the browser's preference as Ben noted<br>
<div class="moz-cite-prefix">On 2016-08-09 16:31, Ben Laenen wrote:<br>
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<blockquote cite="mid:3084690.ODYv66JnuD@mango" type="cite">On
Tuesday 09 August 2016 11:37:58 joost schouppe wrote:
<blockquote type="cite">Someone asked on Twitter about a rendering
of OSM in Dutch and French to avoid the clutter of bilingual
names in the standard rendering. </blockquote>
How about this one: <a class="moz-txt-link-freetext"
href="http://mlm.jochentopf.com/">http://mlm.jochentopf.com/</a>
Fill in "nl" or "fr" in the box to get the names rendered in those
languages <br>
Ben<br>
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