[Talk-in] Indic place names in [name] tags

H.S.Rai hardeep.rai at gmail.com
Wed Jan 18 17:30:11 GMT 2012


On Wed, Jan 18, 2012 at 6:39 PM, Arun Ganesh <arun.planemad at gmail.com> wrote:
<snip>
> No data is going to be lost, only that the default osm tiles will only show
> the latin names. But then again its time we set up india tile servers for
> indian languages so that localization can be carried out in a more
> consistent manner.

It should be done. Thank you for taking lead.

http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Highway_and_Railway_Map_of_India_OSM.png
shows empty boxes at most of places in state of Punjab, because of
same issue.

I also suggest make railway and road map different, as at most places
these are very near to each other, so not distinguished on common map.

-- 
H.S.Rai



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