[OSM-talk] international name rendering

[D Tucny]

On 29/05/07, Jon Burgess <jburgess777 at googlemail.com> wrote:
>
> On Mon, 2007-05-28 at 21:22 +0100, David Earl wrote:
> >
> > > -----Original Message-----
> > > From: Jon Burgess [mailto:jburgess777 at googlemail.com]
> > > Sent: 28 May 2007 21:01
> > > To: David Earl
> > > Cc: OSM
> > > Subject: Re: [OSM-talk] international name rendering
> > >
> > >
> > > On Mon, 2007-05-28 at 20:45 +0100, David Earl wrote:
> > > > > I've attached some examples.
> > > >
> > > > Can you put the names in brackets?
> > > >
> > >
> > > Sure, but can you be more specific and give some examples or what you
> > > want?
> >
> >
> > I was thinking of something like
> >
> >   London (Londres, Llundain)
> > or
> >   London [Londres, Llundain]
> > or even
> >   London (fr:Londres, nl:Llundain)
> >
> > Would this get a bit unmanageable for places like London which probably
> has
> > different names in a couple of dozen languages?
> >
>
> I was originally hoping for a vertical layout which I think would work
> better. I'm not sure brackets would be necessary in that case:
>
>   London
>   Londres
>   Llundain
>
> I agree that we need to do something to limit the list of names. Even
> with 3 I think the map starts getting a bit cluttered. If only we could
> use the Accept-Language: header to choose which alternate name to
> render. Maybe we could do with all the names being rendered in
> per-language transparent layers. Or we accept that we need to re-render
> the tiles in several different languages.
>
>         Jon


If it's possible to do a carriage return, would something like Name in
normal size on first line, then alternate Name:s in a smaller size, possibly
italicized, space separated on the second line be any good?

e.g. (for HTML readers)
London
Londres Llundain

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