[OSM-talk] i18n-rich areas on the map

[Aun Johnsen (via Webmail)]

On Tue, 21 Jul 2009 22:05:40 +0000, Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason
<avarab at gmail.com> wrote:
> I'm doing some experiments with multilingular rendering (for deploying
> on Wikimedia sites, see Maps-l) but I'm lacking good test data.
> 
> What areas on the OSM map are especially rich in "name:$code" tags for
> different languages? Preferably down to street level.
> 

I would suggest any multi-lingual conflict zones such as Cypros (greek,
turkish, english), and countries with several official languages (Belgium).
Should be some good opertunities in south-east asia, but do not know how
good the data is. Cyprus/Belgium should have a good dataset to work with.

> I thought Gaza might be pretty good but it mainly just has an odd mix
> of name:en and name= where the main name tag contains the arabic
> version too.
> 

There should be a name:en or similar for every name written with non-latin
characters

> Are there any areas that are better? Preferably with more than two
> languages.
> 

Try Quibec (Frensh/English), Cypros (Greek/Turkish/English?), Belgium
(French/German/Dutch), Switzerland (French/German/Italian/?), Southern
Finland (Finnish/Swedish), Northern Norway/Northern Sweden/Northern Finland
(Norwegian/Swedish/Finnish/various Samii names), Greenland might also be a
source (Danish/Inuit), check also out Thailand, Malaisia, Singapore,
Bangladesh, Sri-Lanka, Hong Kong where the names might be written with
various types of lettering (Latin/Sanskrete/Chinese) even if the names are
the same in all languages. Besides, important cities, such as national
capitals should also be available in all variations of the name
(Peking/Pequim/Bei Jing/++ for the chinese capital). 

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