1000 - 7000 extra layers? That's give or take the number of languages in existence... depending on who you ask, but even adding 500 extra layers is not a practical endeavour.
2017-09-25 12:15 GMT+02:00 James <james2...@gmail.com>: > 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 >> > > _______________________________________________ > talk mailing list > talk@openstreetmap.org > https://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk > >
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