Display names in English

If you do want names displayed in English on those tiles in the osm style, there is a new project osMap that shows tiles with English labels (amongst others) using transscription if no English name tag is available.

It's also optimized for faster tile-loading speed depending on where you are right now: just use

• www.osmap.us if you are in the U.S. or Canada,
• www.osmap.uk if you are in Europe or
• www.osmap.asia if you are in Asia

Some more European versions (French, Spanish, Italian, German, Dutch and Danish) can be found via www.osmap.info.

As several people have asked: Access to the English tiles (as well as the Spanish and French) can now be obtained through MapTiles API.

If you like the standard style and you miss only the English labels, you can use this service:

[edited to not include the link to a map]

It uses slightly modified osm-carto code, so it's possible to set your own service with localized names in any other language, if you have the skills to deploy OSM maps rendering infrastructure:

https://github.com/giggls/openstreetmap-carto-de/tree/upstream+l10n

This solution is working for me. In the *.mml file, wherever there is a SELECT ... name ... statement, I replaced name with the following.

         CASE
            WHEN tags->'name:en' IS NOT NULL AND name IS NOT NULL AND tags->'name:en' <> name
            THEN CONCAT(name, chr(10),'(', tags->'name:en', ')')
            ELSE name
         END

This is rendering name of entity in local language with English in Roman Alphabet in parentheses below the local language name. Two items to note: If the SELECT ... name ... is selecting name as a list of fields being selected, and name has a comma after it, the CASE statement needs to have that comma after it. If name is at the end of the list of fields and has no comma, the CASE statement needs to not have a comma after it. Second item, the CASE statement is evaluating tags->'name:en'. Therefore the FROM part of the SELECT statement needs to be evaluating the tags field in the table. In the default project.mml file, some of the SELECT statements FROM parts are querying a subset of fields in the table "(FROM (SELECT...". If you want to evaluate the tags->'name:en', then you need to add tags, to the "FROM (SELECT" part of the SELECT statement.

I ended up going with osmand + scrcpy because every other solution had major drawbacks imo (qgis doesn't work with mapillary, couldn't figure out a custom api endpoint in josm with an api key, osmap.us doesn't have same capabilities as osm.org), mapillary (website) doesn't have a distance scale.