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House numbers in regions with few alphabets #6736

Open alnzrv opened 11 months ago

alnzrv commented 11 months ago

Serbia has two alphabets: Cyrillic and Latin. Cyrillic is more official but Latin predominates in daily usage and is installed on most smartphones. Buildings can have either Cyrillic or Latin house number (e.g. 32đ or 32ђ) on signs. Right now community standard for Serbia is to use Latin in addr:housenumber but mostly because it has more usage on the smartphones. But official cadaster has it in Cyrillic. If Organic Maps can search house numbers in both Latin and Cyrillic interchangeable, it could improve the app's usability and popularity in the country. If such search (cyrillic search, latin data; latin search, cyrillic data) works in most apps, local community will be able to change all addr:housenumber tags to Cyrillic.

It would also make sense to look at countries like Montenegro (both Latin and Cyrillic are official but Latin is prevalent), Bosnia (three official languages and two alphabets) and Kazakhstan (there are plans to switch from Cyrillic to Latin) but I'm not sure about any nuances in these countries.

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vng commented 11 months ago

Good point. Quick found "a, b, v" HN suffixes. Is it: "а, б, в" in cyrillic? Is there any mapping available? Say, I don't know what "đ, ђ" letters are :)

alnzrv commented 11 months ago

Is there any mapping available?

We can use Wikipedia as a source, "Summary tables" section: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Serbian_Cyrillic_alphabet#Modern_alphabet