[OSM-talk] Multilingual map even more flexible...

Eugene Alvin Villar seav80 at gmail.com
Fri Nov 30 22:10:05 GMT 2012


On Sat, Dec 1, 2012 at 5:29 AM, Jochen Topf <jochen at remote.org> wrote:

> Hi!
>
> I have added some more flexibility to the map at
> http://mlm.jochentopf.com/
>
> You now have to explicitly tell it when you want to fall back to the name
> tag. Use the underscore (_) to do this. For instance with "fr" you'll only
> get the "name:fr" tag. With "fr,_" you'll get "name:fr" and, if that
> doesn't
> exist "name".
>
> You can now have several languages in one label, for something like
> "München
> (Munich)" you set it to "de|en", ie. use the vertical bar between lines.
> The
> second line will appear in parentheses.
>
> You can combine all of this, for instance as "fr,en|_".
>
> Of course this isn't perfect. You can get empty parentheses for instance.
> But hey, it's nice to play around with.
>


It seems this new feature doesn't work at higher zoom levels, or at least
with place=village nodes and roads. I still get name=* tags even if I
didn't specify "_".
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