The purpose of the default rendering is to give feedback to mappers. Preferably local mappers, so having the map rendered in local languages shouldn't be a problem.
If you want to use OSM data as a tourist use OsmAND or MAPS.ME and set a language of your choice. If other projects need tiles for their own purposes/user base, they should render them to their liking and make them available. Jo 2017-09-25 7:56 GMT+02:00 Edoardo Yossef Marascalchi < e.marascal...@gmail.com>: > my 2 cents: > having a 2 layers map, one with local languages rendered, the second with > english ones when present as first choice, then local when not > > Il 25 set 2017 7:14 AM, "Yves" <yve...@gmail.com> ha scritto: > >> 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 >>> >>> >> _______________________________________________ >> talk mailing list >> talk@openstreetmap.org >> https://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk >> >> > _______________________________________________ > talk mailing list > talk@openstreetmap.org > https://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk > >
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