I think Latin as default is disrespectful to areas like Japan which might not be able to read Latin letters as they have kana for non-japanese words. It's a bit biased to ask if Latin should be the default on a Latin based list(letters not language).I'm sure there would be a different opinion if you asked on talk-jp or any other list(non-latin)
Ideally it should be a layer per language: English everywhere, Japanese everywhere, Arabic everywhere, etc etc On Sep 25, 2017 6:02 AM, "Oleksiy Muzalyev" <oleksiy.muzal...@bluewin.ch> wrote: > On 9/24/2017 11:01 PM, Matthijs Melissen wrote: > >> [...]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). [...] >> > > Why not use the Latin language itself for an additional label to non-Latin > alphabet titles? It is readily available in Google translator and also in > Wikipedia. Here are these titles in Latin: > > https://la.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pechinum > > https://la.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hungaria > > https://la.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mauritania > > Best regards, > > Oleksiy > > > _______________________________________________ > talk mailing list > talk@openstreetmap.org > https://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk >
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