That's why you could have text rendered via JavaScript and not in the JPG itself....
On Sep 25, 2017 6:37 AM, "Jo" <winfi...@gmail.com> wrote: > 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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