[Tilesathome] Multilingual Map

[Dirk Stöcker]

On Fri, 27 Feb 2009, Dermot McNally wrote:

> 2009/2/27 Dirk Stöcker <openstreetmap at dstoecker.de>:
>
>> The correct form would be to display the major name larger and the less
>> important name smaller below and in brackets.
>>
>> e.g.
>> Praha
>> (Prague)
>
> Let's be careful about doing things just because other (less clever)
> maps do them. We already have one example of this, in the linear scale
> - just as I have no need for miles on the linear scale, I also don't
> need to see both Praha and Prague on the map. A much better solution,
> IMHO, is to focus on ways of allowing easy switching between favoured
> languages as you later allude to.

Yes, but
a) Bilungual maps are helpful also beside the t at h, so an infrastructure
    would be fine.
b) I think we will have some way to go until we have user-choosen
    language, so it is also a much more better shortterm solution.

Ciao
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