On 11-08-16 18:38, André Pirard wrote:
On 2016-08-09 11:37, joost schouppe wrote:
Hi,
Someone asked on Twitter about a rendering of OSM in Dutch and French
to avoid the clutter of bilingual names in the standard rendering.
https://twitter.com/iciBrussels/status/762743820358418432
The French render is easy, OSM France provides it. But how about a
Dutch rendering? Do you know of one?
It might be cool to create a little webmap on OSM.be with the three
official languages. If you help me find a Dutch rendering, I can make
that (I've just learned the basics about leaflet).
It looks rather easy to make a style with mapbox, but you need to
extract the data through Overpass for exotic languages like Dutch, so
it would be a bit of a job to keep that up to date.
I don't understand exactly what the problem is.
OSM.org displays the names according to the Language preference of the
browser (1).
Precisely, it displays a name in the first language of that preference
that matches one in the map.
Else, it displays the common default name.
E. g. if the preference is fr,ru :
if name:fr exists, display it, else if name:ru exists, display it, else
display name.
Hence, to reliably display Dutch, the preference must be nl,... and
name:nl must exist.
Or name=* must be in Dutch, but see gotcha.
That is a gotcha, of course. If name=French_name has been coded and a
good soul adds mane:ru=России_имя, the fr,ru French speaker accepting
Russian will see the Russian name. When adding name:ru=*, name:fr=*
must also be added.
This is especially strange in a region like Brussels.
The law says that the names must be written in both fr and nl.
But no Belgian sees that because their preference uses fr or nl. Only
foreigners do.
A good samaritan could then write a script that in all officially
multilangual areas (think Brussels, certain areas of Canada, Fryslân
etc) checks whether for each item which has a name:<lang1>, a
name:<lang2> is also present, and, to get more political, whether a
name (without lang) doesn't advance either of those languages.
I am not that good samaritan though!
Tijmen
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