[OSM-talk] Is there a world render with country/city labels in English?

[Kev js1982]

I wonder how much of that is down to us seaming needing to change every
cities name when in English but foreigners being happy using the English
spelling (especially the Latin alphabet countries)?

Just from the top of my head we have

Munich - München
Cologne - Köln
The Hague - Den Hagg
Ghent - Gent
Dusseldorf - Düsseldorf (okay, understandable as English doesn't have
umlauts)
Hanover - Hannover

Although the English spelling of one of Nottingham's twin towns is
Timișoara.... (looks random but is one of Nottingham's twin towns...) - yet
every English town I have checked on foreign Wikipedia's uses the English
spelling in both Dutch and German

On 7 June 2012 13:24, Nick Whitelegg <Nick.Whitelegg at solent.ac.uk> wrote:

>
> Looking at other locales (e.g. fr, de) it's interesting how few English
> place names have local names in other languages compared to the other way
> round (or at least have been tagged as such in OSM) - only London seems to
> have local names - whereas many towns in Germany and Italy (less so France,
> except for pronunciation) have English names.
>
> The Welsh locale is interesting though.
>
> Nick
>
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> Date: 06/06/2012 07:42PM
> Subject: Re: [OSM-talk] Is there a world render with country/city labels
> in English?
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>
> Dave F. wrote:
>
> Hi
>
> As the subject line really. I've had a quick look but came up blank.
>
> Cheers
> Dave F.
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