<div dir="auto">Ottawa is one of the few places that has bilingual street names.<div dir="auto"><br></div><div dir="auto">On the same street I've seen just the name, name street and rue name street signs.</div><div dir="auto"><br></div><div dir="auto">In Ottawa the majority are Slater street in name then rue Slater in name:french. </div><div dir="auto"><br></div><div dir="auto">Anything else means it is difficult to search for the name electronically. "rue Slater Street" is not easy to enter.</div><div dir="auto"><br></div><div dir="auto">Note for Ottawa it is rue Slater not Rue Slater. Other places such as Quebec may have different rules.</div><div dir="auto"><br></div><div dir="auto">Cheerio John</div><div dir="auto"> .</div></div><div class="gmail_extra"><br><div class="gmail_quote">On 29 Sep 2017 4:10 pm, "Martijn van Exel" <<a href="mailto:m@rtijn.org">m@rtijn.org</a>> wrote:<br type="attribution"><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><div dir="ltr">Hi all, <div><br></div><div>How do you map bilingual signposts? Ones that say for example 'Rue Regent St'?</div><div>My thought would be destination:street=[name in primary language for the province] and destination:street:en / destination:street:fr for the name in the other language. But I've also seen just 'destination:street:Rue Regent St'.</div><div><br></div><div>My team would like to help make this consistent if you're up for that, but what should be the convention? From a machine parsing perspective, separating out the languages in separate tags is preferable.</div><div><br></div><div>We have a ticket for this question as well, <a href="https://github.com/TelenavMapping/mapping-projects/issues/27" target="_blank">https://github.com/<wbr>TelenavMapping/mapping-<wbr>projects/issues/27</a></div><div><br></div><div>Thanks / Merci</div><div>Martijn</div><div></div></div>
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