On 5 June 2015 at 06:01, Marc Gemis <marc.ge...@gmail.com> wrote: > > On Thu, Jun 4, 2015 at 4:14 AM, John Willis <jo...@mac.com> wrote: > >> Don't confuse searching for an object with how they are >> sorted/labeled/and represented - nor forget about the inflexibility in >> OSM/-carto to get them represented differently. (Take-out bag?) Or support >> regional renderings (buddhist shrines do not use the buddhist wheel in >> Japan, but thats what they get) >> > > You might know the French made their own rendering of OpenStreetMap data. > They have a baguette for a bakery instead of the bagel icon. They also have > decicated icons for their railway stations, mail offices, etc. It would be > a good thing when e.g. the Japanese community would set up their own > server, with focus on what they find important and with typical icons for > their culture. When it would appear on osm.org as an alternative layer > that would even be greater. > > regards > > I have absolutely no objection to locals using their own language names for things but having different icons is surely not a benefit ?
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