gurpinder chahal wrote > hi all, > I'm trying to change language in my OSM tile server.
Although the following won't help with the rectangular font issues and also requires the import with hstore, it might be of interest to pointing out, that a while ago, I was working on an extension to mod_tile/renderd to make changing the language easier. This extension [0] allowed to parameterize the rendering stylesheet on a request by request basis by programmatically rewriting the mapnik style sheet. One of the possible parameterizations (well, actually the only one currently implemented) was to change the language of the name. It allowed for urls of the form http://yourserver.com/style/ar,de,fr,_/1/0/0.png, where "ar,de,fr,_" was the language parameterization, rendering the first of name:ar, name:de, name:fr and name which is not empty for each feature. The advantage is that with this, you can take (nearly) any style sheet and turn it into a different language style-sheet without having to mess around with re-writing the xml. If I remember correctly, the state of that branch was that it was working, but not heavily tested yet. One of the reasons I didn't continue pursuing it back then was that it breaks mod_tiles compatibility with tirex and I didn't want to do that without making sure that tirex gets updated as well. But perhaps it is worth pushing again for getting it into a state to merge in to the mod_tile/rednerd trunk. This whole branch was heavily based upon Jochen Topf's work on multi-lingual maps project for the wikimedia germany chapter [1],[2], which is another great place to look at. Kai [0] https://github.com/apmon/mod_tile/tree/multi-lingual [1] http://blog.jochentopf.com/2012-06-21-wikipedia-multilingual-maps-project.html [2] http://blog.jochentopf.com/2012-12-19-status-of-the-multilingual-maps-project.html -- View this message in context: http://gis.19327.n5.nabble.com/Changing-language-in-OSM-tile-server-tp5773152p5773218.html Sent from the General Discussion mailing list archive at Nabble.com. _______________________________________________ talk mailing list talk@openstreetmap.org http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk
