OpenStreetMap
Stumbled on the beautiful Multilingual Map Test tool following a comment on pratikyadav’s Hindi map post.
Not sure how Jochen works his magic, but all you give it is a language code and the tool renders a transparent overlay of name labels on the fly.
Seeing a world map in my native language Tamil for the first time in my life
It even allows you to define a fallback list of languages. Europe in हिन्दी, ಕನ್ನಡ, తెలుగు, தமிழ்
Did I mention we have 122 major languages in India? Someone put this tool on the OSM homepage already!
讨论
stephan75 于 2015年10月16日 16:59 的评论
Hint for everybody who is interested in this topic:
See the OSM wiki about Map Internationalization
(Please tell us if there is missing something in that wiki article, or more stuff is outdated already)
Kolossos 于 2015年11月10日 19:23 的评论
Hello PlaneMad, original project page is here: osm.wiki/Multilingual_maps_Wikipedia_project
I18n of maps is still a topic at Wikimedia: https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T112948 Should come to production with help of Mapbox’s vector tiles rendering. Perhaps you have a chance to support the project.
Kolossos 于 2015年11月10日 19:38 的评论
The actual bottleneck in the project seems that a missing c++ expert for: “Add hstore support to Mapnik’s c++ code – this will allow all languages to be stored in the vector tiles simultaneously.”[1]
Perhaps you know someone.
Greetings Tim
[1]https://lists.wikimedia.org/pipermail/maps-l/2015-September/001439.html