[Talk-in] Names of cities in some local language

[Mikel Maron]

Tanveer,

Can you give an example place where you see this behavior?

I suspect that two different objects are being rendered. Mapnik currently renders whatever is in the default "name" tag, rather than "name:en" or "name:hi".
Ideally, the labels would be localised per user. Requires a good deal of work .. a nice meaty project! I can sketch out some of the ideas around this if anyone is interested.


I know there's been discussion and some action around a local OSM India server. This would give full control, and it could be possible to render an English only tile set, a Hindu only tile set, etc.

-Mikel



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From: Tanveer Singh <tanveer1979 at gmail.com>
To: talk-in at openstreetmap.org
Sent: Friday, April 24, 2009 12:35:21 PM
Subject: [Talk-in] Names of cities in some local language

Hi,
I saw that in OSM the names of cities at lower zoom levels appear in
some local language(I think its hindi). Only on zooming in english
name is visible. Is there a way to turn of this stuff and see only
English names. Infact non hindi areas also show up in hindi. Some
language nazi at work here?
Tanveer

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