[OSM-talk] OSM Help Ukraine Map

[Brian M. Sperlongano]

On Fri, Mar 11, 2022 at 7:19 AM Niels Elgaard Larsen <elgaard at agol.dk>
wrote:

> 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.
>

Any reasonably-competent data consumer that cares about multilingual names
is already using wikidata for this purpose.  OpenStreetMap Americana is a
vector map which merges OSM and wikidata multi-lingual names in this way by
virtue of its use of openmaptiles-tools/planetiler, both of which are able
to bulk-import wikidata *at render time*.  There is no need from a data
consumer standpoint to replicate this information in OSM other than for the
convenience of less-sophisticated data consumers that can't be bothered to
merge multi-source data when building their product.  If the community
wants better multi-lingual name support, the best thing you can do is to
add missing wikidata tags.
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