[OSM-talk] Languages, OSM, scripts and all that.

[Mitja Kleider]

Am Freitag, den 06.08.2010, 22:48 +0200 schrieb Celso González:
> On Fri, Aug 06, 2010 at 04:29:22PM -0400, Paul Houle wrote:
> >    I just recently pointed my nooscope at places outside the U.S. and  
> > was quite amused to see arabic letters in the tile maps around Tunis...
> >
> >    Looking around a bit more I find Japanese writing w/ Romanized text  
> > around Tokyo
> 
> The name tag is always in the official name of the region being mapped.
> But you can add name:LANG tag to get your local name of a distant region,
> i think even was one of the Project of the Week recently.
> 
> Ok, so we have the data (or we have the option to add proper data) but we
> dont have the rendering.

We actually do:
http://toolserver.org/~osm/locale/

Working with overlays might lead to overlapping objects, though.


Cheers,
Mitja