[OSM-talk-be] OSM in French and Dutch

[joost schouppe]

Hi Jonathan,

That would be extremely cool. Do you have an idea of the costs involved in
setting this up for the area you mention and for the whole world?

I think if we can have a demo by SOTM, we might find someone to sponsor it
there.

Joost

2016-08-09 12:39 GMT+02:00 Jonathan Beliën <jbe at geo6.be>:

> Hi everyone,
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> Good point indeed.
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> It’s not very complicated to generate a custom rendering. For example, I
> did it for BeNeLux + France + Germany using imposm 3 (https://imposm.org/
> ) and MapServer + MapProxy for rendering.
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> My rendering use « default » names but I could have used NL name or FR
> names as needed.
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> It works quite well and it’s not too complicated (even with a recurring
> update). The only problem is the disk space those « tiles » use on the
> server. It’s already quite big for the small area I cover (BeNeLux + north
> of France + west of Germany) ; I can’t imagine the number of tiles if we
> want to cover the whole world.
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> I do not know how to organize that but we could have a « Belgium OSM
> rendering FR » and a « Belgium OSM rendering NL » created, hosted and
> maintained by « OSM.be ».
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> Jonathan Beliën
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> GEO-6
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> *De :* joost schouppe [mailto:joost.schouppe at gmail.com]
> *Envoyé :* mardi 9 août 2016 11:38
> *À :* OpenStreetMap Belgium
> *Objet :* [OSM-talk-be] OSM in French and Dutch
> *Importance :* Haute
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> Hi,
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> Someone asked on Twitter about a rendering of OSM in Dutch and French to
> avoid the clutter of bilingual names in the standard rendering.
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> https://twitter.com/iciBrussels/status/762743820358418432
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> The French render is easy, OSM France provides it. But how about a Dutch
> rendering? Do you know of one?
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> It might be cool to create a little webmap on OSM.be with the three
> official languages. If you help me find a Dutch rendering, I can make that
> (I've just learned the basics about leaflet).
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> It looks rather easy to make a style with mapbox, but you need to extract
> the data through Overpass for exotic languages like Dutch, so it would be a
> bit of a job to keep that up to date.
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