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

[Gregory]

>
> 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
>

I believe it's actually debated what language name= should be in, possibly
settling on International English or at least osm.org is inteded to display
international names.

Anyway, I think it's good to encourage lots of different language maps.
Someone already made a version of OSM displaying Welsh names from name:cy
(and falling back on name).

To set up your own render and online-map, there are lots of details from
this page:
http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/index.php/Develop

If you just want an easy way to set up a very custom map (you'll need to
write all the styles from a very basic style sheet) then look at this
windows program:
http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/index.php/Kosmos

-- 
Gregory
nomoregrapes at gmail.com
http://www.livingwithdragons.com
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