[Talk-il] English Place names ...

[Baruch Even]

* Jahudie <jahudie at googlemail.com> [081018 23:51]:
> Hi,
> 
> I saw that you had a discussion about english place names in the past.
> As I just now have time to answer I wanted to say that for me it is very
> important to have a recource of english written streets and Places.
> Not everybody knows hebrew but all streets have also a English street name.
> Every city has a English Cityname.
> 
> Both should be written and shown in the map somehow.
> 
> I dont know OSM so good to know how to switch from Hebrew to English output,
> but a Hebrew only map is useless for me.
> Tourists and Imigrants (like me) should be able to read the OSM map in a
> easy way.

I understand the need, but writing both is excessive.

We can (discuss and) decide that we write only English in the name tag
and then figure out how to generate a map in Hebrew for most of the
Israelis who are not very comfortable in English.

Or we can do it in reverse and create a rendering of OSM in English for
those who can't read Hebrew,

It is a general issue in OSM and not limited to Israel or Hebrew. Any
country which uses non-latin alphabet will have that problem as well.

The official word is at http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/index.php/Key:name
and favours using the local name in the local script.

Cheers,
Baruch