Questions Tagged With language tagged <span class="tag">language</span>enMon, 08 Mar 2021 17:08:49 +0000How can I view a relation with name:eu parameter when it has been defined on a map meant to show names in that language?<p>Hi, this is my third attempt with this question, let us hope it now works out. The question is that even if I added parameter name:eu in a relation, it does not show when I used the <a href="">Basque language OSM based map here</a>, e.g. <a href="">here Oloroe-Donamaria</a> renders Oloroe-Donamaria on, because it does have that parameter defined, but <a href="">Tarbes</a>, with name:eu defined as "Tarbe", does not show in the as "Tarbe", it remains "Tarbes" (fr). How can I view the name:eu parameter in all relations if they have been defined? Thanks</p>Inaki OSMMon, 08 Mar 2021 17:08:49 +0000 search shows results in translated languages<p>Hello,</p> <p>When I'm searching for any location in Republic of Moldova, although I write the name in the local language, the results are being shown in different translated languages.</p> <p>For exemple, if I search for a street "Strada 31 August 1989, Bălți", the result is "улица 31 Августа 1989, Берестечко, Bălți Municipality, MD-3110, Moldavie" because the location and the neighborhood have a "name:ru" tag, and the city is shown in "name:en" while the country in "name:fr". Why is this happening and how to fix that ?</p> <p>A solution was adding the local language key "name:ro". This solved my problem for the street, but it's the same for the neighborhood and the country. </p> <p>In this case, if I write "Strada 31 August 1989, Chișinău", since it has the "name:ro", the result is "Strada 31 August 1989, Historical Centre, Chișinău, Municipalité de Chișinău, MD-2012, Moldavie" with the neighborhood being syill showed in English this time and the municipality and the country in French.</p> <p>I think for both cases, the result should be seen in local language, unless I set a specific order of languages in my profile. Is this a bug or I'm using wrong OSM ?</p> <p>Note: Adding name:ro is seen bad by other editor as he calls the local language "Romanian" with "Moldovan" and he also adds the wrong tag "name:mo" or "name:md" (the ISO 639-1 code is "ro" and there is no "mo" or "md" existing code as there is no such language). Also, the OpenStreetMap <a href="">Multilingual</a> wiki shows the exemple of France or Romania where only name:<em> is used without name:fr:</em> or name:ro:* although the <a href="">Names#Repeating_name_with_language_specific_tag</a> page encourages it.</p>VitalieSSun, 09 Aug 2020 16:16:13 +0100 can to change the language of GPS map!<p>I've a English speaker and bicycle rider, I have a Sigma Rox 12.0 GPS but the OSM language of maps are local and I can't change their languages to English! I tried many many...! how can to change them to English!</p> <p>Help, pleaseee. Thanks!</p>JANET-TMon, 08 Jun 2020 16:57:55 +0100 Nominatim: Retrieving city names in Italian<p>I am trying to retrieve some cities names from zip codes using Geopy Nominatim. Here is the code:</p> <pre><code>from geopy.geocoders import Nominatim geolocator = Nominatim() Locations = pd.read_csv("cap.csv", delimiter = '\t') Locations.columns = ['CAP'] Locations = Locations.drop_duplicates() Cities = [] for cap in Locations['CAP']: print(cap) city = geolocator.geocode(query = cap, addressdetails = True, language = 'it') </code></pre> <p>The problem is that the results I get are not in Italian, but they are:</p> <pre><code>arrondissement d'Anfa مقاطعة أنفا 성거읍 Sinak Galatone H/E Ward Δήμος Κερατσινίου - Δραπετσώνας </code></pre> <p>Do you know how can I get these names in Italian?</p> <p>I would also like to get a more detailed address output. At the moment this is what I get: Susegana, Treviso, Veneto, 31058, Italia</p> <p>I would like something that tells me which is the city, so for example city: Susegana, etc.</p> <p>Thank you, Carlotta.</p>CarlottaMon, 30 Mar 2020 08:17:15 +0100 name in english language<p>how can i covert all country name in english language ?</p>umdeveloperThu, 20 Jun 2019 16:24:49 +0100 names for same street in one language<p>I'm new to OSM and I'm editing OSM for Israel at the web editor. <br> Often there are multiple ways to write the street names in English, and sometimes even in Hebrew (often due to political orientations). For example Salameh street can be written as either סלמה or שלמה. <br> In English it is written as either: Shalma, Salameh or even Shlomo. <br> I think it would be helpful to add all the street name versions, for if someone search one of these terms, he will find it. For example, in Google maps the road is called 'Shalma Road', but if you search by 'Shlomo Road', it does direct you to it. <br> But in the web editor I seem to be able to add one street name per language. <br> Is there a way to add more versions of the street name for the same language?</p>aikumWed, 12 Jun 2019 02:26:20 +0100 map language with URL<p>What is the url query argument to set the language to English for all of the country names? I know there is a way to do this without logging in, but can't remember anymore. <br>I've tried lang=en, but it does not work. </p> <p><a href=""></a></p>purpleteaSun, 31 Mar 2019 05:00:00 +0100 is Egypt?<p>My language preference in my browser is set to English, but OpenStreetMap keeps ignoring it.</p> <p>Looking at this map, can an average american tell where Egypt is?</p> <p>Of course not. Because an average human being doesn't know all alphabets of the world. So what should OSM do? It should display the map text in the language the internet user understands. </p> <p><img src="" alt="alt text"></p>agronMon, 04 Feb 2019 07:07:29 +0000 way to serve tiles in multiple languages<p>Hi,</p> <p>I've successfully installed an OSM tileserver following the <a href="">switch2osm</a> tutorial and using the OSM-Bright style. All the labels are in the country original language, but I need my server to be able to serve tiles in differents languages, depending of the current user locale, falling back to English or country language if the name is not found in his locale.</p> <p>How do I do that? I've seen some posts relative to internationalization, talking about a "name:en" column in the planet_osm_point table, but I don't have it in my db (although I used the --hstore option with osm2pgsql). Is that normal?</p> <p>Thanks!</p>voharunadoWed, 11 Jul 2018 14:31:12 +0100 do I find elements without name in a specific language?<p>I want to find elements (preferably with specific tags such as cities, villages, roads, monuments) in Greece that they do have a <code>name</code> tag and a <code>name:en</code> tag but not a <code>name:el</code> tag?</p> <p>(Q2: Is there an easy way to copy the name tag to name:el tag massively?)</p>gerakiSat, 19 May 2018 16:51:58 +0100 Korean language in josm<p>Korean doesn't work for me. In the Program small squares In windows 10 64 version 1607 I have installed all additional components. The main language of an operating system - Ukrainian</p>Poliakoff MykhailoMon, 16 Apr 2018 11:42:01 +0100 much internationalization data exists in OSM maps?<p>Hi, I work at Wikimedia. We're about to <a href="">launch a project</a> that, among other things, will let users display maps on Wikipedia and other wiki projects in the local language of the wiki (instead of the language of the territory mapped). But our maps are based on OSM, so what our users will actually see will depend on how much internationalization data OSM has. I don't want to oversell this feature to our users and then have them be disappointed, so I am trying to figure out how extensively OSM maps are translated. </p> <ul> <li>In your experience, how much translation does OSM have? Is it just major city and country names and a few tourist attractions? Or does it go much further? </li> <li>Is there any way to get a data readout on this? E.g., is there, perhaps, a dashboard someplace with stats or graphs?</li> <li>Is there a way I can preview how various maps would look in a different language? Changing my "preferred language" setting on doesn't change the map display. I see that I can click on individual map features and look for translations, but this is time consuming. Is there a more general way? And is actually showing everything it has? </li> </ul> <p>Thanks so much!</p>jmatazzoniWed, 11 Apr 2018 23:42:26 +0100 name problems<p>Hi,</p> <p>I am looking at Serbian map, and there is a lot of mixed cyrillic and latin written names. It is quite confusing.</p> <p>Is there some way to make this unified (or cyrillic or latin)</p>SmajserWed, 16 Aug 2017 13:38:55 +0100 language<p>OSM on my PC displays road and many place names etc in the native language (in my case Thai) I would like to set this to English which I think should be possible as my navigation app has the street names in English (OsmAnd). Can I do this and if yes, how?</p>alantrinderThu, 27 Jul 2017 03:50:24 +0100 is missing even though name exists<p>I am trying to name a building area with these tags but the validation process is reporting the error message I have noted in the title.</p> <p>building=apartments name:en=Nichigo Apartments name:ja=雪山 source=Bing</p> <p>What am I doing wrong? This is located at 140.7047055,42.8575236,140.7084961,42.8603574. Thanks</p>GavinXSun, 13 Nov 2016 06:45:17 +0000 in different languages<p>Instead of </p> <pre><code>destination:lanes=Brussels;Bruxelles|none|... </code></pre> <p>is it possible (and better) to use</p> <pre><code>destination:lanes:lang:en=Brussels|none|... </code></pre> <p>and</p> <pre><code>destination:lanes:lang:fr=Bruxelles|none|... </code></pre> <p>Edit: Destination sign is bilingual - local language and transcription similar to English</p> <p>on the same way?</p>liderMon, 10 Oct 2016 18:06:11 +0100 map in French<p>This map of mine is in French and I'd like it to be in Italian <a href=""></a></p> <p>How can I make it render in Italian ?</p> <p>Thanks</p>catonanoTue, 05 Jul 2016 23:27:56 +0100 for data in OSM in only one language<p>I've been trying to use some of the data OSM provides, like a list of all the countries in the world or all cities within a country. I am getting the correct results but I am getting those results in every language, I only want/need the data in English. How can I get those results? </p>LCKF16Thu, 16 Jun 2016 17:29:21 +0100 parameter not working on own nominatim installation<p>I've installed Nominatim on a local server of ours, and it seems to work fine, except for one minor (major for me unfortunatly) problem. It is not returning the different naming of a specific location, on different languages.</p> <p>For example, let's take this query:</p> <pre><code> <a href=";osm_type=R&amp;osm_id=146656&amp;namedetails=1">;osm_type=R&amp;osm_id=146656&amp;namedetails=1</a> </code></pre> <p>This query returns a json array, with a "namedetails" parameter, containing the different names on different languages. When I make the same query, on my own nominatim installation, it returns the same data, but with no namedetails parameter. otherwise, the data matches on both queries. Any ideas what could be the problem?</p>Adam BaranyaiSun, 08 May 2016 02:01:01 +0100 OSM displays city names in French language<p>Hi! When editing my maps, the default setting of OSM is French. Is it possible to choose/set the native (or a specific chosen) language somewhere? Cheers!</p>marqueThu, 14 Jan 2016 10:09:06 +0000 to tag genitive cases of place names?<p>So, <a href="">Irish</a> has a genitive case for place names. We're starting to translate <a href=""></a> into Irish (using <a href="">Transifex</a>), and we'll need to use the genitive name in some cases (e.g. "Baronies in Wicklow" would need to use the genitive name of "Wicklow" (FYI "Cill Mhantáin" is gen, "Cill Mhantáin" is nom.)).</p> <p><a href="">Logainm</a>, the official Irish Placenames Database, has <a href="">released their data under ODbL</a>, and we're going to use that. It lists the genitive name of placenames. So we have a source.</p> <p>Is there a best way to add the genitive name of a placename? <code>genitive_name:ga</code>?</p>rorymThu, 22 Oct 2015 21:36:23 +0100 display (Map) language<p>How to change Display language in Thai Map?</p>davidstipekWed, 09 Sep 2015 08:30:23 +0100 location data (city, state, country, zip, lat, long) into mysql in local language<p>Hi Guys,</p> <p>I have been trying to use <a href=""></a> to get a data set where I can extract </p> <ul> <li>City </li> <li>County</li> <li>State</li> <li>Region</li> <li>Country</li> <li>Latitude</li> <li>Longitude</li> <li>Postal code/zip code</li> </ul> <p>The requirement is to be able to lookup places by zip code/postal code or by place name. Now the place name etc needs to be available in english as well as local language. </p> <p>e.x for Taipei, capital or Taiwan where the main language is Chinese, we want:</p> <ul> <li>Place name (English): Taipei</li> <li>Place name (Chinese): 台北市</li> <li>All other information as above</li> </ul> <p>Is this possible to get this info from <a href=""></a>?</p> <p>I just downloaded a sample data xml for a region and I can see that it has lot of information. I did find a wiki for a script to import data to mysql - <a href=""></a> but I don't think I can use it as it is because the data I want is not per geo boundary but more like per city/state/country. So can anyone guide me how I can use this data for my usage? I don't want to run a script to export the data per geolocation or by specifying certain area.</p> <p>Thanks a ton! </p>sumitkWed, 17 Jun 2015 02:06:33 +0100 to resolve key:name language conflict<p>Algeria has tow official languages Arabic then French. Later, they added Berber as 3rd official but only applied in specific regions. We have other dialects.</p> <p>Taking example Jijel (Wilaya/state) &amp; Taher (Baladia/commune), name then roll back...</p> <ul> <li><a href=""></a></li> <li><a href=""></a></li> </ul> <p>I used to map in Jijel place where I live. In Jijel, most road signs are in Arabic only. In the national roads, may see French beside Arabic. Some limited regions have Berber or Kabyle as a plus.</p> <ul> <li> <p>I add Arabic to <code>key:name:ar</code>, move French name to <code>key:name:fr</code> and <code>key:name:en</code>, use Arabic alone in <code>key:name</code>.</p> </li> <li> <p>Later, someone change <code>key:name</code> to French. I send him a message. We couldn't get into an agreement (He prefer to use a single language). Well, I told him I will use dual language Arabic French to avoid conflict with other regions. He reply, he will not map in Jijel. A month later, He changed a town name again to French.</p> </li> <li> <p>I was using bi-language for sometime. Same thing happened with another mapper, He didn't reply after I told him my point of view (bi-language).</p> </li> </ul> <p>I read about similar cases, but those are missing a special ingredient <strong>hate</strong> </p> <ul> <li><a href="">Bilingual Country Names</a></li> <li><a href="">Georgia - localized names</a></li> </ul> <p>Is it possible to disable <code>key:name</code> for some regions?</p>SneetsherWed, 27 May 2015 12:47:39 +0100 not in English; most countries show native languages<p>I've a English speaker who resides in Thailand, who does not read Thai nor the languages of other Asia countries. My OSM language setting is "en-US,en" (w/o quote marks).</p> <p>I need to have the OSM maps to be in English, as much as possible, yet my current language setting doesn't seem to accommodate this.</p> <p>Help, please. Thanks!</p>grathiamSun, 08 Feb 2015 09:24:48 +0000 comment language<p>What's the preferred language for changeset comments? I'd suspect English, but since the editor's interface is localized (iD, German), I am a bit confused.</p>michaelkloepzigSat, 27 Dec 2014 23:21:06 +0000 iD, names entered in Farsi appear backwards<p>hi dear I tried to edit a map in iran and want to name a street . when I type the name in my language ( farsi ) . when I save that letters will be opposite . I mean when I type "مال " it will be showed " لام " what is the solution ? thank you </p>morsadrSun, 30 Nov 2014 06:50:34 +0000 to change a wiki page content language?<p>How do I change a wiki page content language? In my particular case I want to change the language of the Istanbul page: <a href="İstanbul&amp;action=info">İstanbul&amp;action=info</a></p> <p>The page content language is set for English, though the majority of the stuff is in Turkish. So I want to set it to Turkish.</p>WasusTue, 18 Nov 2014 17:00:06 +0000 it possible to specify a language for results in reverse geocoding?<p>Hi all! </p> <p>I was checking out this map creator page that uses OSM - <a href=""></a> and I noticed there was an option to use transliteration. I was just wondering, is it possible to do this with reverse geocoding in Open Street Maps? It would just be super handy for me at the moment to specify the language results were coming back as. </p> <p>Thanks Pete</p>PeteskiiiFri, 31 Oct 2014 23:10:38 +0000 Languages list<p>Hi everyone,</p> <p>I have a suggestion about language list. I'm trying to add arabic translations for all the cities in Algeria, the problem is I have to scroll through the list to find Arabic.</p> <p>Can you plz put preferred languages (which can be selected elsewhere) at the beginning of the list so users can find them faster ?</p> <p>Thanks.</p>hiddeneyes02Wed, 29 Oct 2014 20:18:06 +0000