[OSM-dev] Multilingual Maps Overlays

[Peter Körner]

Am 19.06.2010 16:22, schrieb Claudius:
> Am 19.06.2010 13:22, Peter Körner:
>> Am 19.06.2010 13:13, schrieb Claudius:
>>> A better approach would require country- or location-aware rules for
>>> choosing fallback languages.
>> There is nor technical probelm here. If we had a fallback chain like:
>>
>> de: de,en,fr
>> ru: ru,cz
>
> I'm still wondering if this approach isn't too easy. Aren't there some
> areas where I would prefer not to show the english name but the regional
> one for the german view? e.g. in the Netherlands or some spanish
> regions... it's probably best to just try it out
Yes there always combinations where a visitos can read german and 
spanish and want's to see germany in german and the rest of the world in 
spanish, but this is not our goal.

The main goal is to get the maps into the wikipedias, and in a german 
wikipedia i'd expect german names where possible and local names 
otherwise, so "name:de" with a fallback to "name".

> In which format would you like the list and where would you want to
> integrate it into your stylesheet? I guess you would perform this via
> PostgreSQL views.
Any format will do for a try. It'll be performed in the sql queries of 
the mapnik xml file, just as i did it here:

<http://svn.toolserver.org/svnroot/mazder/styles/osm-labels-poi/osm-labels.xml>

Peter