[OSM-talk] Multilingual map

Ben Laenen benlaenen at gmail.com
Sat Mar 14 16:22:23 GMT 2009


On Saturday 14 March 2009, Pierre-André Jacquod wrote:
> Hi,
> great stuff...
>
> > With my first go a couple of weeks back for 8 languages I did do
> > fallback to at least 'name' using views as suggested on the wiki,
> > setting this up for 40 languages however was somewhat less trivial
> > and I felt that there would be a benefit to being able to display
> > languages with no fallback...
>
> I think, here would a feature like name:local_lang=de,
> name:de=Deutschland be very useful. This would also help in order to
> have a map done in a chosen language, without blanks in the country
> (countries) where this language is the default value.
> paj

But does it really make sense to tag every object inside a country with 
the same name:local_lang tag? Talk about data duplication...

Ben




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