Hi,
On 10/05/2011 11:14 AM, Lambert Carsten wrote:
If Hebrew is the (official) local language
Israel has two official local languages, Hebrew and Arabic. This is a
fact and upheld by Israel's supreme court.
this is not a tagging issue
but a rendering one as others have noted and in that case the
combined name tag would be 'wrong' (IMHO).
Combined name tags should always be avoided, and localised name tags
(name:xy) preferred. In the long run, we expect (and hope) that we will
have a map that displays everything to everyone in the language they
have configured in their browser - someone who prefers Hebrew would see
the name in Hebrew, and some who prefers Arabic would see the name in
Arabic.
We are not "there" yet, however; our current rendering system requires
that exactly one name is rendered onto the tiles and that is currently
whatever is in the "name" tag.
Given that
1. street signs in Jerusalem itself are routinely done with both
languages (or even three, plus English)
and
2. the situation is not permanent, but only a work-around until such
time as we can serve maps in their desired language to everyone
DWG felt that our suggestion of using both languages in the OSM "name:"
tag was a compromise that should be acceptable to all.
The other thing that was on the table was a solution with two different
nodes of equal status, one for each language. However due to Mapnik text
placement rules it is likely that depending on zoom level and other
circumstances, only one label would be drawn due to place collisions,
and we pointed out that nobody could guarantee exactly *which* name
would appear on which zoom level and that we would not allow any
tampering with the data in order to bring one or the other to front.
This uncertainty made this approach unattractive to the parties involved.
Andy Robinson has been called in to mediate in this situation but
mediation requires patience, and a willingness to compromise on all sides.
Bye
Frederik
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