[Talk-ca] English and French translation required for some road names

[John Whelan]

In Ottawa highway names for the most part have both English and French.  
name:fr rue Sparks, name:en Sparks street.  If only name is present it 
is the English version.

Just to add confusion to your life.  There has also been a discussion 
about street names in Canada and I think the municipality is the 
authority so adding an English version in Quebec might cause problems. 
Could CNIB assist?

Cheerio John

Steven Abrams wrote on 2019-07-05 7:40 AM:
> Hi all, I am working with Microsoft Research and we have an app called 
> Microsoft Soundscape (on iPhone only currently) for the Visually 
> Impaired and Blind communities. The app provides a 3D map experience 
> and calls out to the user several points of interest and road names, 
> all based on OSM data.
> In Canada we have noticed that in the French speaking cities and areas 
> of Quebec, that roads may be named "1e Avenue" or "1er Avenue".
> I am assuming that this should be called out as "Première Avenue" in 
> French and "First Avenue" in English. Is this correct?
> But I have noticed that there is no translation for both languages.
> Is it possible for some local OSM mappers to consider providing these 
> translations so that apps can callout the names of roads accurately? 
> i.e. a user using the French Language & Voice settings would hear 
> "Première" and users using the English Language & Voice settings would 
> hear "First"?
> I have included a link to such a road where I have added the English 
> translation.
> https://www.openstreetmap.org/way/20443208
> What are the thoughts here?
> Thanks
> Steven
>
>
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