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XCSoar / mapgen

Map generator for XCSoar
http://mapgen.xcsoar.org
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Map generation language select #88

Open StanimirS opened 1 month ago

StanimirS commented 1 month ago

Currently map generation can only produce maps with native options on https://mapgen.xcsoar.org/.

That is an issue if you wish to go to another country and you don't know the language for example japanese, hindi, hebrew, Bulgarian, etc. I cannot tell what the characters mean in most of these languages, so it will be difficult to navigate if the map uses them to point out populated locations.

It would be good if we could choose a language that all populated areas will use for names, instead of the native language. It can be an option for the map to stay in native ofc.

lordfolken commented 1 month ago

So osm data usually contains several languages for a point. Good example if we are speaking about Bulgaria: https://www.openstreetmap.org/node/31058195

An option would be to load the names according to the configured language in the UI of XCSoar. What do you think?

StanimirS commented 1 month ago

Sounds great, sadly I do not know if the xcm file contains the full osm data or just the one displayed on the map.