[OSM-ja] Fwd: [OSM-talk] Bug fixes multilingual map

[Douglas Perkins]

ダグラスです。

It's very nice to see the internationalization support progress!

Automatically creating name:ja_kana, name:ja_rm, and name:en is 
probably not going to work.  Japanese kanji have ambiguous readings, so 
you can't go from them to a phonetic reading automatically.  And you 
can't go from a phonetic reading to kanji, because there are many kanji 
with the same reading.  Also, there are different ways of writing words 
in romaji, and currently there is not consenus on what name:ja_rm should 
be.  We probably cannot decide on just one romanization style, because 
different businesses or places may have their own preferred spelling.  
Trying to automate the entry process for these tags (except for name, 
which can be an exact copy of name:ja), may well lead to a large number 
of errors.

残念ですが、name:ja だけと知っても、name:ja_kana も name:ja_rm も name:en 
が分からない可能性があります。
漢字の読み方がそんなに簡単なことではないですし。
ローマ字のスタイルはいろいろがありますし。
そうすれば、一つ一つ考えないとエラーが多くなるかもしれません。


On 2012-12-03 10:41, Daniel Kastl wrote:
> Probably some of you also follow the "multilingual map" development
> of Jochen Topf and the discussion on the talk list.
>
> I just want to forward this, as Korea also puts "two languages" in
> the name tag as Japan, ie. 東京 (Tokyo).
> As you can see, it should be the job of the map renderer to do this,
> because it can be done very nicely:
> 
> http://mlm.jochentopf.com/?zoom=9&lat=34.51588&lon=135.9674&layers=B0T&lang=en%7Cja
> [1]
>
> But when you look at the map, there are lots of "name:ja" tags
> missing, because mappers put all information into "name" tag.
> I think the Japanese community needs easier name input tools to make
> name input correct and faster.
> Maybe a plugin for JOSM, though I don't know how to write this:
>
> Could work like this:
>
> 	* Add "name:ja" tag manually
> 	* "name" tag is created automatically with the same name
> as "name:ja" as default
>  	* "name:en" and "name:ja_rm" tag would be great, if this could be
> derived from "name:ja"
> 	* "name:ja_kana" tag would be great, if this could be derived
> from "name:ja" as well
>
> So in the best case someone has to write only "name:ja" tag and the
> others are created automatically (and corrected if necessary).
> This would be great for multilingual maps.
>
> Daniel
>
> ---------- Forwarded message ----------
> From: ANDREW ERRINGTON <erringtona at gmail.com>
>  Date: Mon, Dec 3, 2012 at 10:22 AM
> Subject: Re: [OSM-talk] Bug fixes multilingual map
> To: Martin Koppenhoefer <dieterdreist at gmail.com>
> Cc: "talk at openstreetmap.org" <talk at openstreetmap.org>
>
> This is fantastic!  I hope that this, or something like it, can 
> become
>  the default way of rendering.  In Korea (and Japan) we have adopted
>  the convention of putting two languages into the name=* tag, which 
> is
>  tedious, and I think shouldn't be done.
>
>  Anyway, could you please look at street names?  Maybe there's a bug.
>
> 
> http://mlm.jochentopf.com/?zoom=18&lat=35.6888&lon=127.90618&layers=B0T&lang=en%7Cko
> [2]
>
>  It doesn't matter if I use en|ko or ko|en, it seems there is an LF
>  character between the two strings which is not present in the 
> original
>  data.  You can see it rendered as 'LF' inside a square box.  This 
> 'LF'
>  does not appear for other labels, such as restaurants or schools.
>
>  Anyway, great work!
>
>  Best wishes,
>
>  Andrew
>
>  On Mon, Dec 3, 2012 at 6:16 AM, Martin Koppenhoefer
>  <dieterdreist at gmail.com> wrote:
>  >
>  >
>  >
>  >
>  > Am 02/dic/2012 um 21:45 schrieb Jochen Topf <jochen at remote.org>:
>  >
>  >> Note that sometimes the name in [] appears below the other name
> and sometimes
>  >> right behind it. I am not doing anything different there, I guess
> it has something
>  >> to do with the way Mapnik renders multiline labels in different 
> scripts.
>  >
>  >
>  > Maybe this has to do with the wrap width you set for the
> textsymbolizer, or is it independent from the length of the name?
>  >
>  > Cheers,
>  > Martin
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> Links:
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> [1]
> 
> http://mlm.jochentopf.com/?zoom=9&lat=34.51588&lon=135.9674&layers=B0T&lang=en%7Cja
> [2]
> 
> http://mlm.jochentopf.com/?zoom=18&lat=35.6888&lon=127.90618&layers=B0T&lang=en%7Cko
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