On Wed, Jan 18, 2012 at 6:39 PM, Arun Ganesh <arun.plane...@gmail.com>wrote:
> I have been trying to render maps from the osm data and the multilingual > place names in the [name] tags has been an issue. There are all sorts of > formats: [<latin>], [<latin> <local>], [<local> <latin>], [<latin> > (<local>)], [<local> (<latin>)], [<local>]. > > Yes, I also bumped into these issues. > I feel for the sake of consistency, only the latin name be entered into > the [name] tag, and the local language one in the [name:hi] or similar tag > with the two letter language code. Otherwise the inconsistent name tags is > just going to make processing the data cumbersome. I'm going to move the > local names into the name: subtags, let me know if anyone has an issue with > that. No data is going to be lost, only that the default osm tiles will > only show the latin names. But then again its time we set up india tile > servers for indian languages so that localization can be carried out in a > more consistent manner. > cheers, > Let's do this. > > -- > j.mp/ArunGanesh <http://j.mp/ArunGanesh> > > > _______________________________________________ > Talk-in mailing list > Talk-in@openstreetmap.org > http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk-in > > -- Sajjad Anwar | W: http://sajjad.in | T: @geohacker
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