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OER World Map Prototype
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Wrong label when lookup geonames #91

Closed dr0i closed 10 years ago

dr0i commented 10 years ago

The labels of the countries seems to all to be English but "Belgium" is labeled as i"ቤልጄም".

literarymachine commented 10 years ago

This is a known issue and basically expected behavior. The labels are not all in English, it is first tried to get the label in the language the browser is configured for. If that is not found, the default label (no language tag set) is used. If that is not found, the last label in the data is simply picked.

Note to myself: I am currently only looking into gn:officialName. A closer look at the geonames data revealed that gn:alternateName should also be taken into account to provide labels in the desired target language.

literarymachine commented 10 years ago

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