[OSM-talk] Label language on the Default stylesheet

James james2432 at gmail.com
Mon Sep 25 10:39:48 UTC 2017


That's why you could have text rendered via JavaScript and not in the JPG
itself....

On Sep 25, 2017 6:37 AM, "Jo" <winfixit at gmail.com> wrote:

> 1000 - 7000 extra layers? That's give or take the number of languages in
> existence... depending on who you ask, but even adding 500 extra layers is
> not a practical endeavour.
>
> 2017-09-25 12:15 GMT+02:00 James <james2432 at gmail.com>:
>
>> I think Latin as default is disrespectful to areas like Japan which might
>> not be able to read Latin letters as they have kana for non-japanese words.
>> It's a bit biased to ask if Latin should be the default on a Latin based
>> list(letters not language).I'm sure there would be a different opinion if
>> you asked on talk-jp or any other list(non-latin)
>>
>> Ideally it should be a layer per language: English everywhere, Japanese
>> everywhere, Arabic everywhere, etc etc
>>
>> On Sep 25, 2017 6:02 AM, "Oleksiy Muzalyev" <oleksiy.muzalyev at bluewin.ch>
>> wrote:
>>
>>> On 9/24/2017 11:01 PM, Matthijs Melissen wrote:
>>>
>>>> [...]For example, we have a label 北京市 for Beijing, a label موريتانيا for
>>>> Mauritania, and a label Magyarország for Hungary.
>>>>
>>>> The openstreetmap-carto team quite frequently receives requests to
>>>> (additionally) display labels in English (or in any case the
>>>> Latin-alphabet). [...]
>>>>
>>>
>>> Why not use the Latin language itself for an additional label to
>>> non-Latin alphabet titles? It is readily available in Google translator and
>>> also in Wikipedia. Here are these titles in Latin:
>>>
>>> https://la.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pechinum
>>>
>>> https://la.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hungaria
>>>
>>> https://la.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mauritania
>>>
>>> Best regards,
>>>
>>> Oleksiy
>>>
>>>
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