[OSM-talk] disputed territories

[Dave Stubbs]

On 13/12/2007, William Waites <ww at styx.org> wrote:
> On Thu, Dec 13, 2007 at 10:39:02PM +1300, Tony Bowden wrote:
> >
> >   Decide what language should be used for names on the map (Serbian or
> >   Albanian). This is a highly political decision, so I am not adding any
> >   names until some policy has been agreed upon.
>
> Perhaps there should be no such thing as "names on the map", rather
> names should be rendered depending according to the language requested
> by the user. If a user's client is set to Serbian, they should get
> KOSOVO (or KOCOBO (ersatz cyrillic) depending on character set) if in
> Albanian then they see KOSOVA.
>
> If the user's client requests something other than the local language
> they may get the rendering in their language (MOSCOW as opposed to
> MOCKBA) or a default. Any contentiousness is moved to the choice of the
> default.

Localisations are already available and the disputes wiki page already
suggests using them. The problem is the default. There is no English
for Kosovo/Kosova... which you choose can be political.

Selecting names by language isn't that hard -- the problem is
rendering resources to produce all the different tile sets/tile set
overlays.