I personally am not a fan of using 8 different names in one name tag
(though some countries that have multiple equal languages do favour
that nationally). The example here "Baltijas jūra / Baltijos jūra /
Itämeri / Läänemeri / Morze Bałtyckie / Östersjön / Østersøen / Ostsee
/ Балтийское
On 2019-12-06 16:58, Andy Townsend wrote:
On 06/12/2019 15:10, Tomek wrote:
https://www.openstreetmap.org/node/305640277
W dniu 19-12-06 o 16:08, Tomek pisze:
EN
Is this change acceptable and can I continue?
https://www.openstreetmap.org/changeset/78060265
I don't think this is the best
W dniu 19-12-06 o 19:01, Andy Townsend pisze:
> On 06/12/2019 14:40, Tomek wrote:
>> EN
>> The problem is that the English imperialists want to impose their
>> language on other nations; and do not understand (do not want to
>> understand) how someone writes in a language other than English, is
>>
It is certainly the case. However, the new tools begin to change this
situation. For example, at Wikidata items one can add a translation into
any language quickly and conveniently.
The commercial websites also get the different language versions, since
it can be implemented now easily and
On 06/12/2019 14:40, Tomek wrote:
EN
The problem is that the English imperialists want to impose their
language on other nations; and do not understand (do not want to
understand) how someone writes in a language other than English, is it
so difficult to use Google / Yandex / Bing?
Taking a
The international language would be English. It is after all the language
of trade and as a consequence absorbed many words from other languages.
But that is taking a pragmatic view and is only one minor voice amongst all
the contributors. There will be many other voices decrying its use.
One
You understand correctly. And yes, you can guess a users language from
either http headers or geolocation or even a cookie. But the issue
there currently is, is that there is one Mapnik map with the captions
rendered in the tiles. To do something about that you would need to
make a different
On 06/12/2019 15:10, Tomek wrote:
https://www.openstreetmap.org/node/305640277
W dniu 19-12-06 o 16:08, Tomek pisze:
EN
Is this change acceptable and can I continue?
https://www.openstreetmap.org/changeset/78060265
Not yet. Wait what people say in reply.
I personally am not a fan of
https://www.openstreetmap.org/node/305640277
W dniu 19-12-06 o 16:08, Tomek pisze:
> EO
> Ĉu tiu ĉi redakto estas akceptata kaj mi povas pluigi ŝanĝi?
> PL
> Czy ta zmiana jest akceptowalna i mogę kontynuować?
> EN
> Is this change acceptable and can I continue?
>
>
EO
Ĉu tiu ĉi redakto estas akceptata kaj mi povas pluigi ŝanĝi?
PL
Czy ta zmiana jest akceptowalna i mogę kontynuować?
EN
Is this change acceptable and can I continue?
https://www.openstreetmap.org/changeset/78060265
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W dniu 19-12-06 o 14:11, Martin Constantino–Bodin pisze:
> Probably the most important point: the goal of the Esperanto community
> is not to overcome English in some kind of epic battle. It is to
> provide language diversity and avoid language imperialism. Hence, the
> main point of the community
On 2019-12-06 14:11, Martin Constantino–Bodin wrote:
Removing the name tag does not solve any problem. The renderer for
the map (or any program that needs to display the name tag) needs to
make a decision which tag to display. If the name tag is not present
it will have to fall back to another
Most people know where the Atlantic Ocean, and it is not a problem. But
if I want to see, for example, where is the Laptev Sea I cannot find it
on the OSM map, not on any layer.
Both the Atlantic Ocean and the Laptev Sea could be marked in Latin
language as Oceanus Atlanticus and Mare
(Long post. TL;DR: I’m presenting the Esperanto community and I am
looking for instances where there is no default language involved around
the renderer.)
IMHO that is more a "he says, she says" argument than anything valid.
To me it comes more across that a small community wants to push its
On 2019-12-06 11:46, Martin Constantino–Bodin wrote:
Some context first. So there has been this changeset that triggered
some discussions: https://www.openstreetmap.org/changeset/77845837
Changeset comments in not a great place for discussion, so I suggest
that we continue here. (Thanks
6 Dec 2019, 12:04 by frede...@remote.org:
> I have reverted a recent edit in which the "name" tag was removed from
> some "international" objects by a user (on the grounds of "if I cannot
> have an Esperanto name then nobody shall have a name for that object!"),
> however in principle, if the
Hi,
On 06.12.19 12:01, Mateusz Konieczny wrote:
> place=continent nodes make no sense at all
True but there will likely be some great mind who, just to get a nice
"AFRICA" label on zoom level 2, will create a multipolygon encompassing
every single piece of coastline around the continent and call
Hi,
On 06.12.19 11:46, Martin Constantino–Bodin wrote:
> The question I would like to ask is about the relevance of having a
> “name” tag in places where there is no default language—knowing that all
> the “name:en”, “name:eo”, etc. are already there. I can imagine that
> some renderers might
6 Dec 2019, 11:46 by martin.bo...@ens-lyon.org:
>
> Some context first. So there has been this changeset that triggered
> some discussions: > https://www.openstreetmap.org/changeset/77845837>
> Changeset comments in not a great place for discussion, so I suggest
> that we
Interesting. I sent a message two days ago with a very similar topic,
but it hasn’t yet found a moderator to accept it (or reject it). I’m
sending it again here, maybe it can help with the discussion.
Regards,
Martin.
Hi,
Some context first. So there has been this changeset that triggered
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