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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: 0s | 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. sp8962 ◴[19 Nov 24 15:59 UTC] No.42184896[source]▶
Just to nip this in the bud, OpenStreetMap in general doesn't contain "translations" it contains the exonyms that are commonly in use for geographic objects. Most of the time things only have a name in the local language so there will be no value for other languages in the OSM data. Transliterations are a bit of a grey area in this context, but are definitely more useful than actual translations which tend to be garbage.

Further point: the data available in the vector tiles is defined by the vector tile schema and by far doesn't contain "everything".