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

[Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason]

On Wed, Jul 22, 2009 at 4:37 PM, Ed Avis<eda at waniasset.com> wrote:
> Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason <avarab <at> gmail.com> writes:
>
>>http://cassini.toolserver.org/browse-fr.html
>>http://cassini.toolserver.org/browse-nl.html

The rest are now up at http://cassini.toolserver.org/tile-browse/

> This is very cool.  I note that a lot of the tiles are the same, so the disk
> space requirement wouldn't be too impossible.

Yeah, hopefully we can cache it with Content-MD5 + Squid.

> Do you plan to support 'my main language is English, but I also speak French and
> Spanish' and so on?  There's a huge number of such combinations, but perhaps
> only a few are common (it would be good to get statistics of Accept-Language
> http headers on the main osm.org site).

I'm targeting embedding in Wikipedia articles so I'm just supporting
maps in the content language of the wiki itself. That's consistent
with every other sort of image / diagram embedded in articles so it's
fine for our purposes.

Something different could be implemented via user preferences but that
would require a new caching key for each new map type, not something I
want to target initially at least.