Thomas, Its not a matter of whether something can technically work or not, its the fact that standards are defined and clear as day, yet for some reason they are ignored by many. Why, I do not understand.
BR//Dragutin On Fri, Feb 24, 2012 at 8:11 PM, Thomas <toba0...@yahoo.de> wrote: > just a quick hack to show that it is possible to deal with the chaos if > name= and name:sr= is used. > You see that the map is latin but name:sr is also filled (thx to Pedja's > script) and can be easy pulled. Move around......database is from end of > last year, some things may not be in. I will reload soon. > http://suncobalt.homeip.net:82/test/distance_sr.html > > Works also abroad to the extend that a name:sr is entered, see admin level > 2,4,6 > http://suncobalt.homeip.net:82/test/distance_sr.html?zoom=10&lat=52.54867&lon=13.27655&layers=BT > > ________________________________ > Von: Miloš Komarčević <kmi...@gmail.com> > > An: Thomas <toba0...@yahoo.de>; OpenStreetMap Serbia > <talk-rs@openstreetmap.org> > Gesendet: 18:13 Freitag, 24.Februar 2012 > > Betreff: Re: [OpenStreetMap Serbia] Oznake > > On Fri, Feb 24, 2012 at 4:50 PM, Thomas <toba0...@yahoo.de> wrote: >> The language code for Serbian is sr according to the ISO Code used by OSM. > > Yes, but only ISO 639 though, which is not enough. > >> If someone wants to deviate from the recommendation, he could use >> name=whatever >> name:sr=cyrllic [optional if name=cyrillic] >> name:sr_lat=latin. > > Baaaaaaaaad. > > Once again, please see the links I posted to Mark Davis' BCP 47 discussion: > > http://icu-project.org/repos/icu/icuhtml/trunk/design/language_code_issues.html > > OSM should really implement BCP 47, not only one ISO tag, and than do > kludges with non-standard arbitrary tags like until now. > > So you'd have support for sr-Cyrl, sr-Latn, zh-Hant, zh-Hans, etc. > > OSM should then have transliteration rules from one script to the > other for each language. > > Mappers shouldn't input this data multiple times, it should be generated. > > It's great news the grant is there, as it's a good opportunity to > something about OSM i18n. > > Regards, > M > > > > _______________________________________________ > Talk-rs mailing list > Talk-rs@openstreetmap.org > http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk-rs > _______________________________________________ Talk-rs mailing list Talk-rs@openstreetmap.org http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk-rs
