[OSM-talk] Multilingual feedback wanted for OpenStreetMap Carto
Tom Hughes
tom at compton.nu
Mon Sep 19 09:37:42 UTC 2016
On 19/09/16 10:32, Oleksiy Muzalyev wrote:
> The hyphens are not disappearing from the Ukrainian geographical names.
> The names are just always spit in two lines at a hyphen for some towns.
> Exactly as for Wotton-under-Edge
> <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wotton-under-Edge> in the UK. Google map
> shows the name /Wotton-under-Edge/ always in one line on the map:
> https://www.google.com/maps/@51.6338253,-2.3526667,14.95z?hl=en , but
> the OSM map always shows this name split in two lines.
Well that's just a design choice really. It's not "wrong" as such to
split it, it's just a question of whether the designer prefers to split
it or not.
That said it seems that OS maps don't normally split them, though they
have often replaced the hyphens with spaces!
Tom
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