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plepe / OpenStreetBrowser

An application to ‘browse’ the information in the displayed part of the map. Similar to common Wikis and also the main page of http://www.openstreetmap.org the website shows a narrow menu on the left side, most of the page is used for the display of the map. In contrast to most Wikis the menu is not static, but rather the content of the map can be browsed in categories. For the map a special style has been developed (sorry guys, I neither like the default Mapnik nor Osmarender styles), and special overlays are displayed to support the current browsed categories. When you click on an object (either from the list or directly on the map) informations on this object are displayed.
http://www.openstreetbrowser.org
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Map features do not appear in selected Data language #84

Closed Juergeen closed 5 years ago

Juergeen commented 5 years ago

While my Interface and Data languages are (by default) set to "English (English)", major cities like Moscow, Jerusalem or Cairo do not appear in English, but in Cyrillic, Hebrew or Arabic scripts. Because I was able to search for these cities with their English names, these must have been available as parts of the data set.

plepe commented 5 years ago

Where do the names appear? On the map background? That's not possible (right now), as I use the standard map tiles provided by openstreetmap.org .

You should see the English names, when use categories, e.g. Places -> Places.

Juergeen commented 5 years ago

Yes, it was about the background map (same behavior with openstreetmap or opentopomap). I was expecting that openstreetbrowser can forward the language setting to the background map server and that that server also has the feature to display names in different languages (native or English, at least).

plepe commented 5 years ago

I see. The background map is rendered as PNG images in 256x256px tiles and cached on the server side. This is very fast and well supported on the client-side, but it also has the problem that no modification of the image is possible.

There's work on so-called vector tiles, which could solve this problem and would also allow customized colors. It's interesting, but not ready-to-use.

Juergeen commented 5 years ago

Thank you. By the way: Great work !