How do I get the map to show up with Latin/English names in places like Greece, Russia China etc.? I am looking at Corfu. ... Ah,I just dropped into Potlatch and it seems the only name for say Sidari is Σιδάρι, which is odd for such a heavily anglicized part of the world (all the street names and road signs etc are in Latin as well as Greek, the whole island runs on English tourists). So I can go and add a little value and give the Latin versions for all these place. I just checked Athens, that does have an international name set as you’d expect. But I still cant get it to show up as such ("international" in this instance I assume means "readable by Western Europeans"). How do I get the map to render with the "International" names ? I can bluff my way through in Greek, and Russian for that matter, but a map in Chinese, Arabic, Thai etc etc aint much use if you don't read the stuff so sorry for such a dumb question, I know I cant be more than two clicks away. I can search for sidari, so something in there knows where it is, so I will leave off adding international names for any of these, they wouldn’t be international anyway, they would be just latinized, I guess International means stuff like Athens rather than Athena, Munich instead of Munchen etc. (which is still the english version rather than the french etc). I had a look at Shanghai, it seems the way it's being done is to just add a latin international name (e.g Century Park Road) on the end of the local name. That seems a bit brutal. asked 03 Aug '12, 11:17 Mark lester aseerel4c26 ♦ |
Similar question here https://help.openstreetmap.org/questions/40850/map-not-in-english-most-countries-show-native-languages?page=1&focusedAnswerId=40938#40938 Whichever solution you choose the English name will only display if the way/area/node is tagged with name:en=* answered 10 Sep '15, 03:39 NZGraham |
… and more ready-made maps are listed at https://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Map_internationalization answered 09 Sep '15, 12:02 aseerel4c26 ♦ |
If you render your own maps then it is just a matter of evaluating the proper answered 03 Aug '12, 11:30 Frederik Ramm ♦ ok thanks, mapquest is doing what I want, thanks.
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