On 25/02/2020 23:39, Alan Mackie wrote:
Vector tiles that prefer either the browser's requested languages or something selectable would be ideal, but we aren't there yet technically for the main 'editors map'. When we are it might be worthwhile revisiting this discussion.
There are complaints about what language to use everywhere. Even such a fundamental part of the infrastructure as 'timezones' has an ongoing debate about just how to spell the ENGLISH name of some identifiers and there has been a growing push to simply drop the 'names' and use abstract references so close the discussion once and for all. The argument here HAS been a problem since day one, and I remember discussions on converting tagging to use ID numbers rather than names ... what ever language they are written in. Just as with timezone identifiers, many of the text strings used can be 'translated' into any language one likes to DISPLAY them, and what has always been missing is a part of the API that simply allows one to select the language one would like to see ... and something which vector tiles could easily support ... but just as browsers still have problems with the simple stuff like returning a clients ACTUAL timezone (time offset as ALWAYS been the wrong information), the basic simple steps have never been defined in any standard?
That the current 'map' is missing names for many graphic objects is just a matter of who controls the style sheets. Personally I prefer the French tile sets over the main version and have to accept that road colours are wrong. None of that affects the flexibility that the raw data provides, although a nice 'United Kingdom' colour set on OSMAND is still on my own todo list, and the vector maps THAT produces have potential to solve many of the 'complaints' ...
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