[OSM-talk] disputed territories

[William Waites]

On Thu, Dec 13, 2007 at 11:27:02AM +0000, Dave Stubbs wrote:
>
> 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.

Apologies, I have been following on the mailing list without having HTTP
access at the moment...

Acknowledged that some choices can be politically controversial, I just
want to suggest that the best thing is to show people what they expect
to see.

Rendering resources or HTML tile implementations aside, people who are
of a nationalistic bent and likely be offended would have their web
browsers set to request their local language first, no?

It should be enough to try to make sure that there are appropriate
localizations in each of the local languages at least for places
infected by nationalistic sentiments.

That said, are you sure that Kosovo isn't an English word? I have never
seen Kosova in an English text and even Albanian friends say Kosovo when
speaking in English.

HTML tile support for OpenLayers as suggested by David Earl would seem
to go a long way to reducing the rendering load...

Cheers,
-w

P.S. Is the English word for Paris?

P.P.S. One of my favourite quotes from Einstein, "Nationalism is an
infantile disease, it is the measles of the human race."