[OSM-talk] Dual carriageways

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Am Donnerstag 19 Oktober 2006 11:55 schrieb Thomas Walraet:
> David Earl a écrit :
> > OK, I'm not being serius here, but the language is rather British english
> > centric.
>
> Instead of english word, we could just have numbers and a translation
> table for each language. But this is just better to use word instead of
> number for those key.
>
> (BTW, speed limit is 130-110 km/h on french motorway)
>

in gpsdrive we try to use (at least for the points of interest) simple english 
words for the database. translations for the localized versions will come 
through gettext or a table or something like that, even for a localized 
english version (if necessary).

I think, this is also a good approach for osm, because when you have only 
numbers, you can loose the overview very fast; when there is a word, you can 
immediately see, what it means.

@david: a roundabout is officially called "kreisverkehr" in germany, but we 
sometimes also call it "kreisel" ;-)


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