[OSM-talk] Multilingual feedback wanted for OpenStreetMap Carto
Oleksiy Muzalyev
oleksiy.muzalyev at bluewin.ch
Mon Sep 19 10:31:49 UTC 2016
On 19.09.2016 12:13, Paul Norman wrote:
> On 9/19/2016 2:32 AM, 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.
>>
>> In France too some towns' names are always rendered in two lines now.
>> For example: Saint-Jean-d'Angély
>> <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Saint-Jean-d%27Ang%C3%A9ly> :
>> http://osm.org/go/equZGaGg-- . Maybe it is an indented feature now,
>> however at Google and Bing maps such town names are displayed in on
>> line, as it should be.
>>
>
> The changes this topic is about are not live on openstreetmap.org. The
> original message has details, but the issue tracking the proposed
> changes is
> https://github.com/gravitystorm/openstreetmap-carto/pull/2349, and you
> can see images there that show what the change is.
>
> The OpenStreetMap Carto project uses GitHub for issue tracking, so
> unless comments are made on the pull request they are likely to lost
> and not be considered when deciding to accept proposed changes.
>
After this discussion it seems that it is not an issue. It is just a
designer's choice, - some towns' names (and other geographical names)
are split now in two lines at a hyphen at any zoom. And it is not only
in Ukraine, but in UK, France, and probably other places.
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