[OSM-talk] Multilingual maps demo

[Pierre Béland]

Jochen

This is very interesting more particulary in areas of the world were we do not recognize the alphabets.

I tried it in Syria were default names are in arabic. If there is a correspondance for the language I select it is ok. Otherwise, the default name is kept. And  there are many areas around the world were we are analphabets not knowing the characters.

This brings the concept of languages proximity and establishing a priority in selecting language to show when there is no name for your selected language. For instance, if french or italian or spanish is not available, english should be showed before arabic, russian, etc. if it is in the list of names.


 
Pierre 



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> De : Jochen Topf <jochen at remote.org>
>À : talk at openstreetmap.org 
>Envoyé le : Vendredi 30 novembre 2012 9h34
>Objet : [OSM-talk] Multilingual maps demo
> 
>Hi!
>
>I have been working on a multilingual OSM map, ie. a map where you, the user
>can decide in which language the labels should be. A demo of the system is
>now available at http://mlm.jochentopf.com/ . The tiles for this demo are
>rendered on tile.openstreetmap.de, the software used is the MapQuest Render
>Stack with modifications by me. You can choose any language or language
>combination for the labels.
>
>This is only a demo, the site might be slow or not work at all. Please try
>it out and tell me what you like and what you don't like.
>
>For more about this project see:
>http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Multilingual_maps_Wikipedia_project
>
>Jochen
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