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OpenStreetMap's New Vector Tiles

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479 points marklit | 1 comments | 19 Nov 24 12:03 UTC | HN request time: 0.214s | source
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ajsnigrutin ◴[19 Nov 24 13:39 UTC] No.42183285[source]▶
> Imagery should appear much sharper and switching the language of the labels should become possible.

So, every eg. city-shape-vector (well.. polygon) will cary the metadata/text of the name of that city in every defined language?

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roelschroeven ◴[19 Nov 24 14:01 UTC] No.42183499[source]▶
Large cities already contain the name in many languages. See Paris for example: https://www.openstreetmap.org/relation/71525

The usefulness of being able to switch the language depends on the availability of translations of course. It might give editors an incentive to add more translations for place names.

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1. M2Ys4U ◴[19 Nov 24 15:17 UTC] No.42184322[source]▶
If there's a Wikidata QID associated with it then one can also use that to look up names in other languages