[OSM-talk] disputed territories

[Mikel Maron]

The Disputes page has a reference to future directions

http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/index.php/Disputes#Future

It is a big job, but encouragement to sketch out the details further.

----- Original Message ----
From: Richard Fairhurst <richard at systemeD.net>
To: talk at openstreetmap.org
Sent: Thursday, December 13, 2007 11:23:04 AM
Subject: Re: [OSM-talk] disputed territories


William Waites wrote:

> 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.

It's a great idea, but will require a heck of a lot of work to  
implement (defining boundaries, multiple tilesets requiring much more  
rendering, etc.), and therefore I suspect isn't feasible for the near  
future. It might be best suited to a distributed effort like  
tiles at home - i.e. if you want the names in your preferred language,  
fine, go off and render them yourselves.

cheers
Richard


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