[HOT] Multilingual names tool for OpenStreetMap

Blake Girardot bgirardot at gmail.com
Sat Sep 10 14:02:40 UTC 2016


Hi Nick,

This sound really cool, I will check it out! Thank you very much for
creating it.

Cheers,
Blake


On Sat, Sep 10, 2016 at 5:23 AM, Nicholas Doiron
<nickd at codeforamerica.org> wrote:
> Follow-up on this OSM name localization project:
>
> I created a "Task Manager"-like interface to create projects. You can sign
> in with your OSM account: http://names.georeactor.com/projects
>
> People without an OSM account can use Facebook Messenger. Send a message to
> http://m.me/osmcitynamer (if you don't have the Messenger app, try
> https://www.facebook.com/osmcitynamer/ )
>
> These projects do not edit OSM yet!  I am working on a system to compare
> multiple users' answers first.
>
> Regards,
> Nick Doiron
>
> On Thu, Aug 18, 2016 at 8:24 AM, Rory McCann <rory at technomancy.org> wrote:
>>
>> On 17/08/16 14:55, Nicholas Doiron wrote:
>> > OpenStreetMap is fortunate to have a large, multilingual community. We
>> > store a "name" tag for local names (sometimes two scripts are used, as
>> > in Morocco) and we use "name:en" and other tags to store names from
>> > other languages.
>> >
>> > In many parts of OpenStreetMap, we have places labeled English-first, or
>> > local placenames without alternate names (eg China).  I hesitate to call
>> > this a /problem /for OSM/HOT, but it could be an interest for expanding
>> > OSM's reach and involving partners.
>> >
>> > Today I set up a prototype on http://city-namer.herokuapp.com/ - it uses
>> > Overpass to pick places with a name but no name:[lang] tag.  States,
>> > districts, and cities are sorted to appear before neighborhoods and
>> > hamlets.
>> > Currently this doesn't edit anything... it dumps into a database. But if
>> > you're interested in making this into a crowd-naming project, please
>> > contact me or glom onto the GitHub
>> > https://github.com/Georeactor/city-namer
>>
>> For those who don't know, Sven Geggus has written a PostgreSQL function
>> to automatically transliterate non-latin names into latin alphabet, so
>> that there'll always been a "latin" name to display on a map. This is
>> visible on the German style. e.g.:
>>
>>
>>
>> https://www.openstreetmap.de/karte.html?zoom=18&lat=35.62024&lon=51.39527&layers=B000TF
>>
>> The code has changed around, but I think this is it now
>>
>>     https://github.com/giggls/mapnik-german-l10n
>>
>>
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