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</head><body bgcolor="#FFFFFF" text="#000000">In Ottawa highway names
for the most part have both English and French. name:fr rue Sparks,
name:en Sparks street. If only name is present it is the English
version.<br>
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Just to add confusion to your life. There has also been a discussion
about street names in Canada and I think the municipality is the
authority so adding an English version in Quebec might cause problems.
Could CNIB assist? <br>
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Cheerio John<br>
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<span>Steven Abrams wrote on 2019-07-05 7:40 AM:</span><br>
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font-size: 13px; font-variant-ligatures: normal; orphans: 2; widows: 2;
background-color: rgb(252, 253, 254);" class="">Hi all, I am working
with Microsoft Research and we have an app called Microsoft Soundscape
(on iPhone only currently) for the Visually Impaired and Blind
communities. The app provides a 3D map experience and calls out to the
user several points of interest and road names, all based on OSM data.</div>
<div style="border: 0px; margin: 0px; padding: 7px 0px; font-family:
Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; color: rgb(51, 51, 51);
font-size: 13px; font-variant-ligatures: normal; orphans: 2; widows: 2;
background-color: rgb(252, 253, 254);" class="">In Canada we have
noticed that in the French speaking cities and areas of Quebec, that
roads may be named "1e Avenue" or "1er Avenue".</div>
<div style="border: 0px; margin: 0px; padding: 7px 0px; font-family:
Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; color: rgb(51, 51, 51);
font-size: 13px; font-variant-ligatures: normal; orphans: 2; widows: 2;
background-color: rgb(252, 253, 254);" class="">I am assuming that this
should be called out as "Première Avenue" in French and "First Avenue"
in English. Is this correct?</div>
<div style="border: 0px; margin: 0px; padding: 7px 0px; font-family:
Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; color: rgb(51, 51, 51);
font-size: 13px; font-variant-ligatures: normal; orphans: 2; widows: 2;
background-color: rgb(252, 253, 254);" class="">But I have noticed that
there is no translation for both languages. </div>
<div style="border: 0px; margin: 0px; padding: 7px 0px; font-family:
Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; color: rgb(51, 51, 51);
font-size: 13px; font-variant-ligatures: normal; orphans: 2; widows: 2;
background-color: rgb(252, 253, 254);" class="">Is it possible for some
local OSM mappers to consider providing these translations so that apps
can callout the names of roads accurately? i.e. a user using the French
Language & Voice settings would hear "Première" and users using the
English Language & Voice settings would hear "First"?</div>
<div style="border: 0px; margin: 0px; padding: 7px 0px; font-family:
Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; color: rgb(51, 51, 51);
font-size: 13px; font-variant-ligatures: normal; orphans: 2; widows: 2;
background-color: rgb(252, 253, 254);" class="">I have included a link
to such a road where I have added the English translation. <br class=""><a
href="https://www.openstreetmap.org/way/20443208" rel="nofollow"
target="_blank" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(35, 101, 176);"
class="" moz-do-not-send="true">https://www.openstreetmap.org/way/20443208</a></div>
<div style="border: 0px; margin: 0px; padding: 7px 0px; font-family:
Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; color: rgb(51, 51, 51);
font-size: 13px; font-variant-ligatures: normal; orphans: 2; widows: 2;
background-color: rgb(252, 253, 254);" class="">What are the thoughts
here?<br class="">Thanks<br class="">Steven</div>
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