Btw, this is already possible - Wikipedia servers let you access both images and raw vector tiles, so if someone wants to do the client part, it shouldn't be too hard.
On Fri, May 4, 2018, 11:11 Yuri Astrakhan <yuriastrak...@gmail.com> wrote: > In reality, it is not impossible, or even that hard. If the vector tile is > sent to the client, than the client can decide which language to render > based on user preference. The exact same code (it's all in JavaScript) can > be used to decide the labeling. Caching would only improve, because instead > of caching multiple raster tiles, it would only cache a single vector tile. > > Mapbox.gl or open layers can both do this fairly efficiently. > > > > On Fri, May 4, 2018, 10:54 Mateusz Konieczny <matkoni...@tutanota.com> > wrote: > >> >> >> >> 4. May 2018 07:36 by md...@xs4all.nl: >> >> On 2018-05-04 00:33, Joe Matazzoni wrote: >> >> No fallback is currently defined for Polish. We’ll be happy to >> change that if you can show community consensus. >> >> >> Community consensus? You mean a bunch of people who decide for the whole >> country (many of them have no idea of the mechanisms behind it) what the >> strategy is? >> I'm sorry to say, but that can not be consensus. This needs to be able to >> be configured at user level. >> >> >> Server resources are not infinite, separate map cache for every user >> would be probably unfeasible. >> _______________________________________________ >> talk mailing list >> talk@openstreetmap.org >> https://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk >> >
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