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

[PlaneMad]

yup a local mapserver is really needed, especially to render india specific
poi's. not sure if kenneth is still actively working on his server at
http://www.greenchilly.in/

On Sat, Apr 25, 2009 at 2:35 AM, Mikel Maron <mikel_maron at yahoo.com> wrote:

> 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
>
> ------------------------------
> *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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