3. Oct 2018 05:06 by graemefi...@gmail.com <mailto:graemefi...@gmail.com>: > OK, now I'm getting even more confused? > Macca's is marked as both name:en & name:th & shows on the map as McDonalds > But the street just above > https://www.openstreetmap.org/way/77991177 > <https://www.openstreetmap.org/way/77991177>> , hotel near by > > https://www.openstreetmap.org/way/301472018 > <https://www.openstreetmap.org/way/301472018>> & bank up above > > https://www.openstreetmap.org/node/3416994635 > <https://www.openstreetmap.org/node/3416994635>> are all marked as both > name:en=whatever & name:th, but all display in Thai characters? > Other shops eg The Scoope > https://www.openstreetmap.org/node/4873971522 > <https://www.openstreetmap.org/node/4873971522>> , Burger King > > https://www.openstreetmap.org/node/907621996 > <https://www.openstreetmap.org/node/907621996>> & Plaza Hair > > https://www.openstreetmap.org/node/3417022297 > <https://www.openstreetmap.org/node/3417022297>> just say name= & all appear > in English. Would I be right in guessing that they've been entered in English > so will appear that way? > > On Tue, 2 Oct 2018 at 19:07, Martin Koppenhoefer <> dieterdre...@gmail.com > <mailto:dieterdre...@gmail.com>> > wrote: > >> It is not about language, it rather depends on the local script. Here you >> can see someone has added name:en for a McDonald's which I otherwise would >> not have found: >> https://www.openstreetmap.org/way/355033671 >> <https://www.openstreetmap.org/way/355033671> > > Similar thing - to me, Macca's appears in squiggles, despite also being > listed as name:en=McDonalds, while Giordano's across the road > > https://www.openstreetmap.org/node/4620121040 > <https://www.openstreetmap.org/node/4620121040>> just has name=Giordano & > appears in English?
Default map style[1] on the OSM main page currently displays "name" tag. [1] https://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Standard_tile_layer <https://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Standard_tile_layer>
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