I wonder how much of that is down to us seaming needing to change every cities name when in English but foreigners being happy using the English spelling (especially the Latin alphabet countries)?<br><br>Just from the top of my head we have<br>
<br>Munich - München<br>Cologne - Köln<br>The Hague - Den Hagg<br>Ghent - Gent<br>Dusseldorf - Düsseldorf (okay, understandable as English doesn't have umlauts)<br>Hanover - Hannover <br><br>Although the English spelling of one of Nottingham's twin towns is Timișoara.... (looks random but is one of Nottingham's twin towns...) - yet every English town I have checked on foreign Wikipedia's uses the English spelling in both Dutch and German<br>
<br><div class="gmail_quote">On 7 June 2012 13:24, Nick Whitelegg <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:Nick.Whitelegg@solent.ac.uk" target="_blank">Nick.Whitelegg@solent.ac.uk</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">
<font face="Default Sans Serif,Verdana,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif"><br>Looking at other locales (e.g. fr, de) it's interesting how few English place names have local names in other languages compared to the other way round (or at least have been tagged as such in OSM) - only London seems to have local names - whereas many towns in Germany and Italy (less so France, except for pronunciation) have English names.<br>
<br>The Welsh locale is interesting though.<br><br>Nick<br><br><font color="#990099">-----SomeoneElse <a href="mailto:lists@mail.atownsend.org.uk" target="_blank"><lists@mail.atownsend.org.uk></a> wrote: -----</font><div>
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Date: 06/06/2012 07:42PM<br>Subject: Re: [OSM-talk] Is there a world render with country/city labels in English?<div><div class="h5"><br><br>
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As the subject line really. I've had a quick look but came up
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Cheers<br>
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Is<br>
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<a href="http://toolserver.org/%7Eosm/locale/en.html" target="_blank">http://toolserver.org/~osm/locale/en.html</a><br>
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what you're looking for?<br>
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Cheers,<br>
Andy<br>
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