[OSM-talk] OSM Help Ukraine Map

[Niels Elgaard Larsen]

On Fri, 11 Mar 2022 11:12:09 +0000
ndrw6 <ndrw6 at redhazel.co.uk> wrote:

> The current situation shows how important transliterations can be.
> Good look finding information on Ukrainian OSM, if you are not fluent
> with Cyrillic alphabet. It is equally as hard for Ukrainians to
> browse OSM maps of Poland, Slovakia, Hungary or Romania. 


But is that because of missing transliterations?

E.g., you can set OsmAnd to transliterate names.

osm.org Mapnik does not use english/international names anyway.

OSM could make a map that used names in the latin alphabet.

Or we could use vector-based maps.


-- 
Niels