Why OSM garmin map Arabic Names do not show all the names appear in English only The Arabic name in the name tag and the English name in name:en but it show english only one language only english asked 09 Jul '16, 22:06  alhjres edited 10 Jul '16, 09:54  aseerel4c26 ♦ |
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You can produce Garmin suitable maps using http://www.mkgmap.org.uk/ In the documentation it states... --unicode This is equivalent to --code-page=65001. Note that only newer devices support Unicode. I believe this is suitable to display Arabic text. I downloaded as an .osm file the above area and ran Mkgmap using the --unicode switch and on my Garmin etrex it appears to be displaying Arabic to me (though I can't read Arabic) I suspect that the search function is probably unlikely to work with this unicode on the Garmin though but it reads ok. Incidentally, there is still a place=town tag with name=Ghayl Ba Wazir on the osm area that you edited. (this comment copied from https://help.openstreetmap.org/questions/50743/names-not-in-local-language-on-map and pasted here as this is more related question) answered 11 Jul '16, 08:53  nevw 2 See ligfietser's reply here (10 Jul '16, 13:00) nevw Is this program, operating with Windows os (11 Jul '16, 12:23) alhjres mkgmap? Yes, it is based on Java. However it has no GUI and needs to be called from the command line. (11 Jul '16, 12:30) scai ♦ 2 It's Java and can run on Windows. I wrote a diary entry for a worked example (on Windows) here: (11 Jul '16, 12:30) SomeoneElse ♦ 1 ok I did it Arabic is display (11 Jul '16, 15:23) alhjres 2 I use this java -jar mkgmap.jar --code-page=65001 yemen-latest.osm.pbf (11 Jul '16, 15:47) alhjres showing 5 of 6 show 1 more comments |
Hi Have a look here https://www.openstreetmap.org/#map=8/35.980/54.080 all those names look Arabic to me. Follow the same tagging protocol and your OSM garmin map should get Arabic as well. answered 09 Jul '16, 23:46  Hendrikklaas 1 I dont mean in OSM maps I mean when I downloaded it as garmin map IMG maps just show one language english language only (10 Jul '16, 01:42) alhjres I notice that the http://garmin.openstreetmap.nl/ maps are currently using osm data dated Map version: 30-06-2016. (10 Jul '16, 10:10) nevw |
Which "OSM Garmin Map" are you using? There are many downloads available.
I use this http://garmin.openstreetmap.nl/