[Talk-ca] Canadian Arctic Island Naming Languages

[john whelan]

Within the map there is provision for different language names.  Different
people have different ideas about which name should be in the name field.
In general the English version will be found following the convention of
the Arctic Institute.  However it is possible to tag name:en name:fr etc.
but then you get a rendering problem.  Not all the rendering systems allow
you to see anything other than the name field.  You'd need to research what
tags are / should be used for the indigenous languages remembering that
they are based on European shorthand.  OSM allows anything but its working
with the rendering systems to display the map afterwards that causes the
problem.

Maperitive does allow you to adjust the rendering rules to display any of
the fields, you might like to use name:en for preference but name if there
isn't a value in name:en.  Maperitive rules are not the easiest in the
world but it does allow you considerable flexibility.  I have Ottawa lying
around in Maperitive somewhere that either displays in English or French,
the street names for example etc. so you could actually have a map that
displayed in an indigenous language.

Cheerio John



On 6 July 2015 at 12:46, James Parker Badger <jpbadger at ucalgary.ca> wrote:

>  Hello,
>
>  I am working at the University of Calgary on a project that is using
> OpenStreetMap data to provide a mapping service for Arctic researchers. We
> chose to use OpenStreetMap as we would like to encourage communities to
> contribute and share their local mapping data.
>
>  One of the partners on our project is the Arctic Institute of North
> America (http://arctic.ucalgary.ca/), and one of their members asked me
> about the naming of islands in the Canadian Arctic: is there a reason some
> islands are named in French and others in English? The Arctic Institute
> generally uses the English names (or names in the indigenous languages).
>
>  Sincerely,
>
>  James
>      --
> James Badger E.I.T.
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