On Wed, Jan 18, 2012 at 7:06 PM, Arun Ganesh <arun.plane...@gmail.com>wrote:
> > > On Wed, Jan 18, 2012 at 6:43 PM, Emilie Laffray > <emilie.laff...@gmail.com>wrote: > >> Hello, >> >> most people have been using the following convention: >> >> [name] => Native language >> [name:en] => Latin character >> [name:hi] => Local name >> >> Nominatim is capable of searching a name whatever the namespace is. Also, >> the Japanese have been also using tags like [name:jp_romaji] for latin >> transcript. >> I believe that the map should be usable for the people who are living in >> the area not for the "tourists". > > > Such a name localization effort using the default mapnik tiles as > reference is only going to result in ALL name tags having both english and > indic names (dont forget that a good proportion of Indians are literate in > english). People want to 'see' their hometowns in the local script, and > adding it to the [name] tag is the only option because the osm tiles > renders only that. > > If we had indic tiles that rendered from name:hi tags we would not have > this problem because those interested in hindi would use the hindi tiles > and the hindi tags. Now there is just duplication of data in name and > name:hi > > I'm afraid I might have been the first one to start this trend 4 years > back when i entered the tamil and english names for chennai just to see if > mapnik was able to render it. In a month, i saw kannada, then hindi names > turned up all over the north, and then bengali in the east. And because > each label is so long, a lot of other place labels get hidden :/ > > Ah, alas the penal code isn't strong enough to punish you for this heinous crime against humanity.. heheh ;-) > -- > j.mp/ArunGanesh > > _______________________________________________ > Talk-in mailing list > Talk-in@openstreetmap.org > http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk-in > >
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