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<div class="moz-cite-prefix">I talked at a conference to a man from
UK who, as I understood, participates in the hardware work on the
OSM servers. I was told that multiple layers require too much
additional work to be handled by volunteers and also additional
hardware&software. That it is not feasible with the current
state of technology.<br>
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The intent is not to replace the titles in Japanese, but to add
additional labels in smaller font in the Latin alphabet. The Latin
language itself has been for centuries the language of science,
and it remains the language of scientific classification. For
example, Isaac Newton wrote his breakthrough books in Latin.<br>
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So why not using it for geographical classification too? As soon
as people see that the Latin version appears on the map as an
additional label, they will start adding tags in this language.
And there will be no doubts that a preference is given to a
certain country or group of countries.<br>
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Best regards,<br>
Oleksiy<br>
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On 9/25/2017 12:15 PM, James wrote:<br>
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<div dir="auto">I think Latin as default is disrespectful to areas
like Japan which might not be able to read Latin letters as they
have kana for non-japanese words. It's a bit biased to ask if
Latin should be the default on a Latin based list(letters not
language).I'm sure there would be a different opinion if you
asked on talk-jp or any other list(non-latin)
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<div dir="auto">Ideally it should be a layer per language:
English everywhere, Japanese everywhere, Arabic everywhere,
etc etc</div>
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<div class="gmail_quote">On Sep 25, 2017 6:02 AM, "Oleksiy
Muzalyev" <<a href="mailto:oleksiy.muzalyev@bluewin.ch"
moz-do-not-send="true">oleksiy.muzalyev@bluewin.ch</a>>
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9/24/2017 11:01 PM, Matthijs Melissen wrote:<br>
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[...]For example, we have a label 北京市 for Beijing, a label
موريتانيا for<br>
Mauritania, and a label Magyarország for Hungary.<br>
<br>
The openstreetmap-carto team quite frequently receives
requests to<br>
(additionally) display labels in English (or in any case
the<br>
Latin-alphabet). [...]<br>
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Why not use the Latin language itself for an additional
label to non-Latin alphabet titles? It is readily available
in Google translator and also in Wikipedia. Here are these
titles in Latin:<br>
<br>
<a href="https://la.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pechinum"
rel="noreferrer" target="_blank" moz-do-not-send="true">https://la.wikipedia.org/wiki/<wbr>Pechinum</a><br>
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<a href="https://la.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hungaria"
rel="noreferrer" target="_blank" moz-do-not-send="true">https://la.wikipedia.org/wiki/<wbr>Hungaria</a><br>
<br>
<a href="https://la.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mauritania"
rel="noreferrer" target="_blank" moz-do-not-send="true">https://la.wikipedia.org/wiki/<wbr>Mauritania</a><br>
<br>
Best regards,<br>
<br>
Oleksiy<br>
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