[Talk-vi] Talk-vi Digest, Vol 2, Issue 1

[Jasper Waale]

Well I mean

Like  *MẮT RỒNG VÀNG in "English" is MAT RONG VANG.*

I have big problems with reading the fonts in my GIS tools to be direct is
looks like shite. have included some screens
**


Mat Rong Vang, ( Skeye Indochina )
Address: C. 12, Str. 30,Tran Nao
Ward Binh An, District 2, Hochiminh City
Lat:10'79'13.84"N Long: 106'72'8466"E

Info at vnskeye.com
www.vnskeye.com



On Thu, Jul 2, 2009 at 22:11, Ivan Garcia <capiscuas at gmail.com> wrote:

> Hi Jasper,
>
> do you mean like a "sounds like" tag for an streetname ? or an name:en tag
> with the formal english translation of some street or city (like HCM City
> instead of Thành phố Hồ Chí Minh)
>
> OSM allows to tag something with many languages by using different tags:
>
> http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Key:name
>
> even exists old_name tag for the previous names of an street or city.
> (Saigon for example)
>
> The fonts rendering shoudn't be a problem cause they are in unicode, as you
> can see in the OSM site, all the Vn accents are correctly rendered. Maybe
> when exporting to some 3rd party format like SHP format or so it may loose
> their uniformity.
>
> Best Regards
>
>
> On Thu, Jul 2, 2009 at 2:51 PM, Jasper Waale <jasper.o.waale at vnskeye.com>wrote:
>
>> One thing that I like to ask for is "English" street names, sure vn names
>> are good but as its possible to have more data
>> perhaps add English spelled named that will solve number issues with fonts
>> that I have and other must have,
>>
>> Regards
>>
>> Jasper
>>
>>
>> Mat Rong Vang, ( Skeye Indochina )
>> Address: C. 12, Str. 30,Tran Nao
>> Ward Binh An, District 2, Hochiminh City
>> Lat:10'79'13.84"N Long: 106'72'8466"E
>>
>> Info at vnskeye.com
>> www.vnskeye.com
>>
>>
>>
>> On Thu, Jul 2, 2009 at 18:40, <talk-vi-request at openstreetmap.org> wrote:
>>
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>>> Hi all,
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>>> Lucinda Hartley from Australia has been working in a NGO of Vietnam named
>>> Habitat for Humanity and they have done a technical report of HCMC poor
>>> mapping areas. (Attached .PDF)
>>>
>>> The aim of this study was to be an introduction, which would then be
>>> followed up by a GIS study  of one district. The second phase has been
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