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Concerning editing countries with Arabic place names, is it possible to change these to English (and if so how)? |
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For viewing purposes, Wikimedia's toolserver has a number of non-local-language maps. Here's the English one. When editing, Arabic placenames often have English and other language alternatives. See for example this node - you can see "name" is in the local language, and there's also "name:en" (and name:de, name:fr etc.). I don't think that you'd want to change the "name" tag to a non-local name. If there's no English name for a place on the map and you know what it is (via a source valid for OSM) then you might want to add a "name:en" for it. 7
To confirm: the "name" (without :xx) tag's value must be in the local language, not in english or some other "default" language. Sometimes there are multiple official languages in a country, and it's up to the local mapper to figure out which one to use in each individual case (it doesn't have to be the same decision throughout the country). Some country's mappers have made a concerted country-wide decision to put two languages one after the other in the "name" tag. That sounds like a pragmatic decision but I find it odd : I'd much prefer "translated renderings" to be more commonly used.
(13 Sep '11, 09:38)
Vincent de P... ♦
The link to Wikimedia is now dead; see e.g. Mapquest for English labels. http://open.mapquest.com/
(09 Dec '15, 08:41)
Piskvor
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You can view labels in one or multiple languages using the "Multilingual Maps Test": http://mlm.jochentopf.com/
(09 Dec '15, 14:27)
neuhausr
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The OpenStreetMap German community has a German Map. It is world-wide and uses a German style. It displays the German name if it's set, but it also automatically transliterates non-latin-alphabetic names (cf. this small area in China, one of the streets there only has a Chinese name). For Arabic countries, there is probably not many For those interested, the automatic transliteration is detailed here: A simple way to localize (latinize) an Openstreetmap style 1
... yes, and see http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Map_internationalization for a general overview.
(09 Dec '15, 17:20)
stephan75
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