[OSM-talk] Crossroad names

[Hans Schmidt]

Am 24.03.2013 16:15, schrieb malenki:
> Since you didn't go into details in you OP, where from should I know
> this?

Well, I mentioned it some weeks before. I didn’t want to write anything
again, because this should have been just a running-up thread for the
bug tracker.

> Why not? E.g. openstreetmap.de has it's own rendering style. 

Because what should be the advantage over one page for everything?

I admit, in order to use different languages, this used to be necessary
(more or less). But with the multilingual map, this problem is hopefully
solved in the future. With different websites, we rather have the
problem that the user has to know every single different page. Imagine
if a German person would like to see the map of Russia? Should he then
first search for the Russian OSM page? Why not just use one map for
everything?


Am 24.03.2013 16:00, schrieb Peter Körner:
> So your best option would be to fork the above mentioned repo,
> incorporate your changes, do some test-renderings of areas in
> Japan/Korea *and* Europe and put all together into a pull request.
>
About this: Is is not possible to make some styles specific to one
region, so that it would not wreak havoc in another? For example, if we
have crossroad names only in Japan and Korea, would it not be possible
to limit these changes only to these countries? So that the other
countries’ stylesheets are not even affected? Then it would be possible
to “play a little bit around” in one country, without affecting the
entire OSM page.
This would not only be relevant for my issue here. Imagine that in one
country, one type of shop would be so ubiquitous that it needed to be
supported. In another country, that kind of shop is non-existant or not
really relevant.
Or again concerning the crossroads: in Japan, they are usually displayed
with a rectangle around the name. In Korea, this may be different (not
sure about that, though). If we only have one stylesheet for the whole
world, this would inevitably cause problems or create some kind of
substandard “average”, where nobody is really content with.

Of course, this is a software issue, but maybe for some future version:
If these stylesheets could be customized according to region, it would
speed up changes and be more suitable for individual regions. Then the
Japanese mailing list would have the responsibility about “their country”.


By the way, I did not know that the original stylesheet is so impossible
to change. I rather though that it would be relatively easy in a way
like “if node has property x and y, do this“, not even with programming
skills involved. Sorry everyone, this was my mistake.