On Wed, Jul 22, 2009 at 8:34 PM, Peter
Körner<peter(a)mazdermind.de> wrote:
>> All 279 languages are now up, note that clicking on any of those will
>> very likely yield a blank page when you first try it since it'll have
>> to render the world at zoom 2 for that language (unless someone had it
>> rendered already):
>>
>>
http://cassini.toolserver.org/tile-browse/
>>
>> But some of them are already up:
>>
>>
http://cassini.toolserver.org/tile-browse/browse-de.html
> I came across some encoding problems on the german map:
>
http://tinyurl.com/ngu965
>
> they seem to be better on the english one:
http://tinyurl.com/msqlea
>
> but in comparison to the official osm-page they are missing localized
> names:
http://tinyurl.com/mwd64c
>
>
> i also saw some not-translated country-names. e.g. on
>
http://tinyurl.com/m6rhc5 "Democratic Republic of the Congo" should read
> "Demokratische Republik Kongo", also "Central African Republic"
should
> be "Zentralafrikanische Republik".
Sorry I missed this E-Mail 6 days ago.
All the issues you point out can be explained by what tags the OSM
data contains and how the translation views for the i18n map work.
When I render the German map I'm checking if a "name:de" key exists
for the given feature, if it does I use that, if not I fall back on
"name".
Here's one of the towns in your first examples:
http://www.openstreetmap.org/browse/node/245765070
As you can see it has name:en but no name:de