[OSM-talk] [Tagging] nomoj de internaciaj objektoj / nazwy obiektów międzynarodowych / names of international objects

[Lester Caine]

On 25/02/2020 23:39, Alan Mackie wrote:
> Vector tiles that prefer either the browser's requested languages or 
> something selectable would be ideal, but we aren't there yet technically 
> for the main 'editors map'. When we are it might be worthwhile 
> revisiting this discussion.

There are complaints about what language to use everywhere. Even such a 
fundamental part of the infrastructure as 'timezones' has an ongoing 
debate about just how to spell the ENGLISH name of some identifiers and 
there has been a growing push to simply drop the 'names' and use 
abstract references so close the discussion once and for all. The 
argument here HAS been a problem since day one, and I remember 
discussions on converting tagging to use ID numbers rather than names 
... what ever language they are written in. Just as with timezone 
identifiers, many of the text strings used can be 'translated' into any 
language one likes to DISPLAY them, and what has always been missing is 
a part of the API that simply allows one to select the language one 
would like to see ... and something which vector tiles could easily 
support ... but just as browsers still have problems with the simple 
stuff like returning a clients ACTUAL timezone (time offset as ALWAYS 
been the wrong information), the basic simple steps have never been 
defined in any standard?

That the current 'map' is missing names for many graphic objects is just 
a matter of who controls the style sheets. Personally I prefer the 
French tile sets over the main version and have to accept that road 
colours are wrong. None of that affects the flexibility that the raw 
data provides, although a nice 'United Kingdom' colour set on OSMAND is 
still on my own todo list, and the vector maps THAT produces have 
potential to solve many of the 'complaints' ...

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