osmlab
Localized map rendering
from https://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Top_Ten_Tasks#Localized_map_rendering
Localized map rendering
- What's involved: CartoCSS or Vector Tiles
- Who can you talk to: dev mailing list or EWG
- What's being done already: see below for a list.
OSM often contains the name of a feature in multiple languages, but only one of these names is visible on the Standard tile layer and many other raster and vector tiles. This can result in misunderstandings and severely impact the map's usefulness for visitors unfamiliar with the local script.
The goal is to allow the user to see names localized in their preferred language(s), based on Accept-Language headers or optionally an explicit language selection. However, this needs to be made possible without taking too many resources. While this should ideally be applicable to the main osm-carto style, a third-party style fast enough to get featured on the osm.org website would also be useful.
Previous work:
- MLM by @joto — now defunct, but very flexible
- Multilingual vector tiles by Klokantech
- See also map internationalization
- Wikimedia Foundation (WMF) Map “internationalization” - osm talk ml announcement
This issue comes from the OSM Top Ten Tasks page
