[OSM-talk] Rendering in a non-default language

Jo ml at winfix.it
Thu Jan 31 13:40:14 GMT 2008


Moshe Sayag wrote:
> Hi Everyone,
>
> I am interested in rendering a map with the street names and places 
> printed in Hebrew.
>
> So for example, if there is a place with:
> name=Jerusalem
> name:en=Jerusalem
> name:he=ירושלים
>
> I want "ירושלים" to be printed, and only if "name:he" is not 
> specified, default to "name".
>
> Can this be achieved? How?
For the map of Israel I believe the contents of name and name:he should 
be equal. Then you get what you want. If somebody wants a map with the 
names in English, he'll have to do some extra effort.

Polyglot




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