[OSM-talk] Label language on the Default stylesheet

[Andy Townsend]

On 01/11/2017 13:43, Pierre Béland wrote:
> Nice, I often had problems while editing or validating in countries 
> with non latin alphabet. Will this be automaticly overlayed to the map 
> based on your language option ?
>
I was being facetious of course - it's just the "Transport" map as seen 
at osm.org.  Actually what I normally use is a map-site that allows you 
to switch between layers including the openstreetmap.de ones (such as 
https://a.tile.openstreetmap.de/tiles/osmde/5/20/12.png .

The slightly more serious point that I was trying to make was that one 
map style can't do everything - if you want to see latin (script, not 
language) names there are options available for you to do that right 
now.  I quite like the idea that the "standard" map tries to use the 
local language and doesn't impose one culture's view of what things 
should be called - and using Latin (the language) worldwide is of course 
not really any different to that - if you truly wanted a "language that 
has been in use for a long time and is spoken by a lot of people" you'd 
pick a version of Chinese.

Best Regards,

Andy

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