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opensciencemap / vtm

a vector-tile map library written in java - running on android, desktop and within the browser
GNU Lesser General Public License v3.0
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How can I change the language ? #171

Open saturngod opened 8 years ago

saturngod commented 8 years ago

I couldn't find any option to change the language. Is there any way to change the way to read language ? I prefer to read name:my instead of name:en or name

schedul-xor commented 8 years ago

Currently there are no options to change language. If you're using the OSciM4 tile source the problem is even more deeply routed, because the tile data doesn't contain the name:* tags. It's probably because the OSciM4 tiles are designed to be lightweight, but adding multilingual name tags will make it heavier.

Actually I'm having the same problem, found out that it contains re-definition of OSciM tile formats.

Disclaimer: I'm not the oscim developer team member, so I don't have any authority to re-define the next OSciM tile formats. The facts written above was what I found out by reading the parser's source code and beautifying one of the OSciM4 tile data (which is a subset of protocol buffer format).

devemux86 commented 8 years ago

In the fork by Mapsforge I added support for multilingual vector maps.

See https://github.com/mapsforge/vtm/issues/34