Re: [Talk-in] Names of cities in some local language

2009-04-28 Thread Mikel Maron
Oh ok! But its funny. People are arbitrarily giving hindi names to places where hindi is not even the local language! Not brilliant but .. It is a wiki! ___ Talk-in mailing list Talk-in@openstreetmap.org

Re: [Talk-in] Names of cities in some local language

2009-04-28 Thread vikas yadav
Hi, I was experimenting on hindi names on north indian towns (specially from Uttar Pradesh). Realized that t...@h can render better if client machine has font installed while mapnik never renders correctly. That was about 3 month ago and me not able to continue the experiment at the moment.

Re: [Talk-in] Names of cities in some local language

2009-04-28 Thread PlaneMad
had the same observation with tamil fonts. the alphabet orders up correctly in osmarender while mapnik makes a mess of it. 2009/4/28 ビカス ヤダワ (vikas yadav) mevi...@gmail.com Hi, I was experimenting on hindi names on north indian towns (specially from Uttar Pradesh). Realized that t...@h can

Re: [Talk-in] Names of cities in some local language

2009-04-27 Thread Mikel Maron
Tanveer, Look here http://www.openstreetmap.org/?lat=34.239lon=77.713zoom=10layers=B000FTF I see only Indian name in hindi, but I want to see english names only. Is there a setting or something I can do so that I do not see local language names? That node has a Hindi name as it's default

Re: [Talk-in] Names of cities in some local language

2009-04-27 Thread Kiran Jonnalagadda
2009/4/27 Mikel Maron mikel_ma...@yahoo.com That node has a Hindi name as it's default name http://www.openstreetmap.org/browse/node/245774579 At present there's no user setting to change this .. it's only changeable in the database. As said previous, if someone is interested, I can

Re: [Talk-in] Names of cities in some local language

2009-04-27 Thread Mikel Maron
From: Kiran Jonnalagadda j...@pobox.com At present there's no user setting to change this .. it's only changeable in the database. As said previous, if someone is interested, I can sketch out some of the technical work needed to implement this. I just edited it using Potlatch, so

Re: [Talk-in] Names of cities in some local language

2009-04-27 Thread Tanveer Singh
On Tue, Apr 28, 2009 at 8:12 AM, Arindam Ghosh makgh...@gmail.com wrote: Hi Mikel On Mon, Apr 27, 2009 at 9:46 PM, Mikel Maron mikel_ma...@yahoo.com wrote: That node has a Hindi name as it's default name http://www.openstreetmap.org/browse/node/245774579 At present there's no user setting

Re: [Talk-in] Names of cities in some local language

2009-04-26 Thread Tanveer Singh
On Sat, Apr 25, 2009 at 2:35 AM, Mikel Maron mikel_ma...@yahoo.com wrote: Tanveer, Can you give an example place where you see this behavior? I suspect that two different objects are being rendered. Mapnik currently renders whatever is in the default name tag, rather than name:en or

Re: [Talk-in] Names of cities in some local language

2009-04-25 Thread PlaneMad
yup a local mapserver is really needed, especially to render india specific poi's. not sure if kenneth is still actively working on his server at http://www.greenchilly.in/ On Sat, Apr 25, 2009 at 2:35 AM, Mikel Maron mikel_ma...@yahoo.com wrote: Tanveer, Can you give an example place where

Re: [Talk-in] Names of cities in some local language

2009-04-25 Thread Subhodip Biswas
On Sat, Apr 25, 2009 at 2:45 PM, PlaneMad theplane...@gmail.com wrote: yup a local mapserver is really needed, especially to render india specific poi's. not sure if kenneth is still actively working on his server at http://www.greenchilly.in/ Not sure If local map server is needed right now

Re: [Talk-in] Names of cities in some local language

2009-04-25 Thread Arindam Ghosh
Hi On Sat, Apr 25, 2009 at 9:27 PM, Subhodip Biswas subhodipbis...@gmail.com wrote: On Sat, Apr 25, 2009 at 2:45 PM, PlaneMad theplane...@gmail.com wrote: yup a local mapserver is really needed, especially to render india specific poi's. not sure if kenneth is still actively working on his

[Talk-in] Names of cities in some local language

2009-04-24 Thread Tanveer Singh
Hi, I saw that in OSM the names of cities at lower zoom levels appear in some local language(I think its hindi). Only on zooming in english name is visible. Is there a way to turn of this stuff and see only English names. Infact non hindi areas also show up in hindi. Some language nazi at work