<html><head><meta http-equiv="content-type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8"></head><body dir="auto"><div><br></div><div>El 25 sept 2017, a las 10:54, Imre Samu <<a href="mailto:pella.samu@gmail.com">pella.samu@gmail.com</a>> escribió:<span style="font-size: 12.8px;">.</span></div><blockquote type="cite"><div dir="ltr"><br>What about the other alternatives?<div><br><div>for example:</div><div>- just adding ALL (official[1]) dual languages for only Z0-Z8 level, and keeping the current design for Z9-Z19<br><br></div></div><div>so there will be (z0-z8)</div><div>- local + english</div><div>- local + chinese</div><div>- local + arabic</div><div>- local + japanese</div><div>- local + russian<br>- local + german<br></div><div>- local + spanish</div><div>- ... </div><div>- local + greek</div><div>- local + hungarian</div><div>- local + ....</div><div>- .....</div><div></div></div></blockquote><div><br></div><div>This is 262144 more tiles *per language*. Who wants to donate a few disks?</div><br><blockquote type="cite"><div dir="ltr"><div><span style="font-size: 12.8px;"> </span></div><div>And the other question: Adding the English language now - <span style="font-weight:bold;color:rgb(106,106,106)">can be counterproductive </span>for implementing the full multi-language support? ( for example - less urgency?)</div></div></blockquote><div><br></div><div>That sounds like an argument against any incremental improvement ever. Wouldn't your proposed multilingual tiles cause less urgency for vector tiles too?</div><br><blockquote type="cite"><div dir="ltr"><div>Imre </div><div>/native Hungarian/</div><div><br></div><div><br></div></div><div class="gmail_extra"><br><div class="gmail_quote">2017-09-25 13:48 GMT+02:00 Matthijs Melissen <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:info@matthijsmelissen.nl" target="_blank">info@matthijsmelissen.nl</a>></span>:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><span class="">On 25 September 2017 at 13:21, Richard Fairhurst <<a href="mailto:richard@systemed.net">richard@systemed.net</a>> wrote:<br>
> Frederik Ramm wrote:<br>
>> I'd invest the available brainpower in steps needed to achieve<br>
>> this goal, even if it's a year or two in the future.<br>
><br>
> Which means vector tiles... which we should be looking at anyway.<br>
><br>
> But that needs to be a separate project really, rather than a facet of<br>
> openstreetmap-carto.<br>
<br>
</span>Yes, to re-iterate: my question is about things we can do now. Vector<br>
tiles are on the horizon, but are likely to take a year or more from<br>
now. Changing some of the labels is something we could do with one<br>
line of code and roll out tomorrow, if we wanted to.<br>
<span class="HOEnZb"><font color="#888888"><br>
-- Matthijs<br>
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