If the OSMF tile servers were to be used to provide webmaps for a vast audience, I would understand double labeling in English. That not the primary purpose, though. Yves
Le 24 septembre 2017 23:01:00 GMT+02:00, Matthijs Melissen <i...@matthijsmelissen.nl> a écrit : >Hi all, > >I would like to ask for your opinion on the choice of language used in >the Default map on openstreetmap.org. > >This map (based on the openstreetmap-carto style) currently displays >all labels in their native language (as defined in the 'name' tag). >For example, we have a label 北京市 for Beijing, a label موريتانيا for >Mauritania, and a label Magyarország for Hungary. > >The openstreetmap-carto team quite frequently receives requests to >(additionally) display labels in English (or in any case the >Latin-alphabet). The people making these requests state that the map >is currently not very usable for an international audience, as many >people are not able to read labels in for example Arabic or Mandarin. >Some areas where this problem is particularly visible: >https://github.com/gravitystorm/openstreetmap-carto/issues/803#issuecomment-330782700 >A prominent case of such a request is from the Gnome Maps team, who >decided not to use the Default style for this reason: >https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=764841#c35 > >From an ideologic viewpoint, I am very much in favour of not giving >preferential treatment to any particular language. Using the local >language seems fair in this respect. On the other hand, from a >pragmatic point of view I can also see that using English (in >addition) would significantly increase the usefulness of the map to >many people. > >I would be interested to know what others think about this. An option, >for example, would be to display countries names, and perhaps the >names of big cities, in English as well as in the local language. > >Note: making the map available in multiple language versions is >something we like to do in the future, however, this requires quite >significant technical changes. Therefore, this is out of scope for >now. > >More information on this issue can be found on Github: >https://github.com/gravitystorm/openstreetmap-carto/issues/803 > >I'm looking forward to your opinions. > >Kind regards, >Matthijs Melissen > >_______________________________________________ >talk mailing list >talk@openstreetmap.org >https://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk
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