[OSM-talk] Multilingual map

Skywave rjtehpwn at gmail.com
Mon Mar 9 13:02:33 GMT 2009


Very nice feature, would it be possible, by any chance, to add Catalan
names, tag name:ca. A lot of streetnames are mapped in two languages, both
in Spain as in France.

Skywave

On Mon, Mar 9, 2009 at 1:01 PM, D Tucny <d at tucny.com> wrote:

> Hi folks,
>
> I've been thinking about how it would be good to have the map available in
> multiple languages... I think the easiest way to do this with what we have
> is using a captionless base layer and transparent caption layers for each of
> the languages... So... I put this thinking into practice and put together a
> proof of concept at http://osm.newportcoastsoftware.com
>
> There is a single base, captionless layer and 40 transparent caption
> layers, all available only to zoom 8.
>
> The name tags imported and used to make the different layers are...
>
> name - The default name
> name:ar - Arabic
> name:cs - Czech
> name:cy - Welsh
> name:cz - Typo for Czech
> name:da - Danish
> name:de - German
> name:el - Greek
> name:en - English
> name:eo - Esperanto
> name:es - Spanish
> name:fi - Finnish
> name:fr - French
> name:ga - Irish Gaelic
> name:he - Hebrew
> name:hi - Hindi (font problems)
> name:hr - Croatian
> name:hu - Hungarian
> name:is - Icelandic
> name:it - Italian
> name:ja - Japanese
> name:ja_rm - Romanised Japanese
> name:kl - Kalaalisut (Greenlandic)
> name:ko - Korean
> name:la - Latin
> name:lt - Lithuanian
> name:lv - Latvian
> name:nl - Dutch
> name:pl - Polish
> name:ro - Romanian
> name:ru - Russian
> name:sk - Slovak
> name:sl - Slovenian
> name:sr - Serbian
> name:sv - Swedish
> name:th - Thai
> name:uk - Ukranian
> name:zh - Chinese
> name:zh_py - Chinese Pinyin
> name:zh_pyt - Chinese Pinyin with tones
>
> This isn't a list of all available languages in use, but, it was most of
> the languages in use for names of countries and cities when I looked...
>
> Issues:
> The layer switcher is quite long with so many layers, so, the map div has
> been set to 900px high to fully incorporate it... If less vertical space is
> available, you'll get a scroll bar, if more is available, the map won't fill
> the window...
>
> The rendering of Hindi has been broken by missed fonts... It should be
> rerendered in a while...
>
> The tiles are bigger than the live site thanks to them not having been
> created at 256 colours, this is due to transparency not currently working
> with 256 colour tiles...
>
> All tiles are prerendered... They don't get updated automatically and they
> aren't rendered on request... So if you make changes to OSM, they won't show
> up on this map for some time... Also nothing currently available beyond zoom
> 8, though I do plan on making certain areas with good examples of multiple
> languages available at higher zooms...
>
> This is just a proof of concept, it will likely disappear at some point...
>
> If anyone has any suggestions, or sees any problems, let me know...
>
> Thanks,
>
> d
>
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