[OSM-talk] Multilingual map

[Claudius Henrichs]

Am 09.03.2009 13:01, D Tucny:
> 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.

Nice PoC, but it's surfacing some of the problems we still have with 
localization: I didn't explicitly tag the german names for countries 
where german doesn't differ from the loca "name=..." to avoid 
redundancy. I think the german layer should use these source for names 
in this order:
1.) name:de
2.) int_name
3.) name

I haven't checked for the mapnik syntax to do so, but maybe you could 
render it for one language as an example.

Regards,
Claudius