[OSM-dev] Migrating osm.org to vectors/Kartotherian

[Oleksiy Muzalyev]

I've heard from the OSM operations team's member at the conference that 
it is the question of the servers' infrastructure cost.

But if we have a vector-based map itself language selection, that we 
could just add tags /name:fr/ or /name: ru/ and have the OSM map of say 
New York in French or in Russian for tourists. Or map of Siberia in 
German also for tourists, Middle East in English, etc. without any 
additions cost on the server side. It is not that difficult to add such 
multi-language tags. There could be also the map in Basque, Catalan, 
Kurdish, Scots and other smaller (by number of speakers) languages 
without any additional cost and without a civil conflict.

I realize that mobile hardware is not enough advanced for that yet and 
vector-based technology is only in an development stage.

brgds
Oleksiy

On 30.10.2015 12:06, Maarten Deen wrote:
> On 2015-10-30 11:53, Oleksiy Muzalyev wrote:
>> One of the advantages of the the vector-based map would be the 
>> multilingualism.
>>
>> For instance at the moment the OSM map of the Middle East is basically
>> useless for me as I do not know the Arabic alphabet yet. But as far as
>> I understand and as I heard at the conference the vector-based map
>> would allow the choice of a language of the map itself.
>
> I do not see how that can not be solved with png-based tiles. You only 
> have to render the tiles.
> The method for detecting which tileset/language to show is the same.
>
> BTW: it is still not as simple as rendering "in a different language". 
> Then you start rendering a map in English and see names like "Cologne" 
> or "Brussels"  show up on the map.
>
> Regards,
> Maarten
>
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