[OSM-talk-be] OSM in French and Dutch [or any monolingual]

[Ruben Maes]

On donderdag 11 augustus 2016 18:26 André Pirard wrote:
> (...)
> OSM.org displays the names according to the Language preference of the
> browser (1).
> Precisely, it displays a name in the first language of that preference
> that matches one in the map.
> Else, it displays the common default name.
> E. g. if the preference is fr,ru :
> if name:fr exists, display it, else if name:ru exists, display it, else
> display name.
> (...)

I don't know where you get this, but it is completely false.
For what you say to be possible, there would have to be separate tiles for every language. That's not the case, everyone gets https://{a,b,c}.tile.openstreetmap.org/{zoomlevel}/{xxxx}/{yyyy}.png.

Just take a look at Bruges[1] if your browser language/OSM prefences language is fr (it shows Brugge, not Bruges), or at Liège[2] if it is nl (it shows Liège, not Luik).

[1] https://www.openstreetmap.org/relation/2375259#map=14/51.2084/3.2266
[2] https://www.openstreetmap.org/relation/1681788#map=14/50.6441/5.5747

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