[OSM-talk] [HOT] Nametagging: Local script versus "international" latin script (for Libya)

[john whelan]

Considering the difficulties I had getting florists to display on a map I
would technically agree with you but add having the data in OSM means you
just need a custom rule set to display rather than setting up a preprocessor
for the renderer.

Cheerio John

On 1 March 2011 02:39, Stephan Knauss <osm at stephans-server.de> wrote:

> On 01.03.2011 00:42, john whelan wrote:
>
>> I have a couple of basic VB programs that can take a local .OSM file and
>> add a name:fr field to street names, it also does a little look up to
>> translate the street name type.  You just take the output and feed it
>> into JOSM and upload the changes.
>>
>
> If a script can do it, then there is no need to upload it to the DB. It can
> simply be a preprocessing step for the renderer.
>
> Stephan
>
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