On Jan 9, 2008 3:17 PM, Dave Stubbs <<a href="mailto:osm.list@randomjunk.co.uk">osm.list@randomjunk.co.uk</a>> wrote:<br><div class="gmail_quote"><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">
<div class="Ih2E3d">On Jan 9, 2008 2:06 PM, Stefan Baebler <<a href="mailto:stefan.baebler@gmail.com">stefan.baebler@gmail.com</a>> wrote:<br>> Hi!<br>><br>> I'd imagine that OSM's "as on ground" rule for primary names should
<br>> also apply for country nodes (tagged with place=country), however this<br>> doesn't seem to be the case at the moment.<br>> <a href="http://osmxapi.hypercube.telascience.org/api/0.5/node%5bplace=country%5d" target="_blank">
http://osmxapi.hypercube.telascience.org/api/0.5/node%5bplace=country%5d</a><br>> shows that primary names are english names for most of the countries.<br>><br>> Any thoughts?<br>> Do we bend the rule here in favor of english over local name?
<br>> How about multilingual countries (eg. Switzerland)<br><br><br></div>I suspect that this has more to do with them not actually being<br>rendered by anything (certainly not osmarender, nor mapnik), and also<br>by them being almost impossible to find during normal map editing (due
<br>to their extremely small size compared to what they represent). </blockquote><div><br>My proposed new version of lowzoom for tiles@home will render country names.<br> <br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">
<br>Italy doesn't even have "Italia" /anywhere/ in it's description.<br><br>I don't know what people are actually using them for, but i suspect<br>they'll all get heavily edited now that you've pointed them out.
<br><div><div></div><div class="Wj3C7c"></div></div></blockquote><div><br>There are 38 place=country tags in the database. There are over 75 country based wiki-projects. We could do with a few more country tags being added I guess.
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