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OpenStreetMap's New Vector Tiles

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479 points marklit | 2 comments | 19 Nov 24 12:03 UTC | HN request time: 0s | source
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DemocracyFTW2 ◴[19 Nov 24 12:44 UTC] No.42182817[source]▶
One clear advantage of the new SVG format is, apparently, that Arabic script is now, finally!, rendered the way it was always intended—left-to-right with unconnected letters /s
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1. rafram ◴[19 Nov 24 13:28 UTC] No.42183178[source]▶
Yeah, I’m curious if that problem is baked into the SVG, or if the renderer has a “don’t screw up Arabic” option that’s disabled by default. You’d think nobody would design software that way, but Photoshop has that option, and it really is turned off by default!
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2. Symbiote ◴[19 Nov 24 13:46 UTC] No.42183355[source]▶
They are just Unicode strings in the vector tiles (which are their own format, nothing to do with SVG). It's this particular demo that is missing basic Arabic support.

  string_value: "شارع المدينة القديمة"
I can't read Arabic, but I know if I see "ل ا" then it's broken — "ال" is correct: https://isthisarabic.com/

Someone's already made an issue: https://github.com/pnorman/osmf-shortbread-todo/issues/9

Found via what seems to be the announcement of this demo/preview service: https://community.openstreetmap.org/t/vector-tiles-on-osmf-h...