On Tue, 21 Jul 2009 22:05:40 +0000, Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason <ava...@gmail.com> wrote: > I'm doing some experiments with multilingular rendering (for deploying > on Wikimedia sites, see Maps-l) but I'm lacking good test data. > > What areas on the OSM map are especially rich in "name:$code" tags for > different languages? Preferably down to street level. >
I would suggest any multi-lingual conflict zones such as Cypros (greek, turkish, english), and countries with several official languages (Belgium). Should be some good opertunities in south-east asia, but do not know how good the data is. Cyprus/Belgium should have a good dataset to work with. > I thought Gaza might be pretty good but it mainly just has an odd mix > of name:en and name= where the main name tag contains the arabic > version too. > There should be a name:en or similar for every name written with non-latin characters > Are there any areas that are better? Preferably with more than two > languages. > Try Quibec (Frensh/English), Cypros (Greek/Turkish/English?), Belgium (French/German/Dutch), Switzerland (French/German/Italian/?), Southern Finland (Finnish/Swedish), Northern Norway/Northern Sweden/Northern Finland (Norwegian/Swedish/Finnish/various Samii names), Greenland might also be a source (Danish/Inuit), check also out Thailand, Malaisia, Singapore, Bangladesh, Sri-Lanka, Hong Kong where the names might be written with various types of lettering (Latin/Sanskrete/Chinese) even if the names are the same in all languages. Besides, important cities, such as national capitals should also be available in all variations of the name (Peking/Pequim/Bei Jing/++ for the chinese capital). > _______________________________________________ > talk mailing list > talk@openstreetmap.org > http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk -- Brgds Aun Johnsen via Webmail _______________________________________________ talk mailing list talk@openstreetmap.org http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk
