[OSM-talk] Transcription and 'internationalization' in place names

[Joseph Reeves]

>I would love to be able to see a map with München (Munich) on it.  I am
going
>there on vacation, but I don't speak German.  It would be handy to know the
>real name for the places I only know the English name of.

Exactly what I was thinking.

Copying the idea of open.mapquest.co.uk would work, I think. The only
change I would like would be to have the local name before the English.

"Brussels (Bruxelles - Brussel)" does look messy, but "Vienna (Wien)" is
great.

Cheers, Joseph



On 16 April 2012 14:47, Andrew Errington <a.errington at lancaster.ac.uk>wrote:

> On Mon, 16 Apr 2012 22:32:14 Maarten Deen wrote:
> > On 2012-04-16 14:15, Joseph Reeves wrote:
> > > As for Korea:
> > >>Should we add name:ko=서울특별시?
> > >>
> > >  >Otherwise, how do we know the Korean name for this city?
> > >
> > > It seems to me that adding name:ko is duplicating data. We should be
> > > using the local names for the name: tag, so the Korean can go in
> > > there. I would then have this rendered as "name= (name:en=)" on the
> > > osm.org [8] mapnik tiles. Such a system could presumably be used
> > > worldwide (although I'm sure there are plenty of people that would
> > > disagree). Having said that, adding name:ko= isn't going to hurt and
> > > may be of use to other data consumers.
> >
> > Hopefully with worldwide you mean only the countries that do not use
> > latin script. It would not be pretty to see München (Munich) or worse:
> > Bruxelles - Brussel (Brussels).
>
> I would love to be able to see a map with München (Munich) on it.  I am
> going
> there on vacation, but I don't speak German.  It would be handy to know the
> real name for the places I only know the English name of.
>
> I'm not advocating this for 'Standard' map tiles at osm.org, but some
> feature
> from some map service whereby I can get a nice map labelled with one or two
> languages of my choice.
>
> Best wishes,
>
> Andrew
>
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