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Localize labels into indigenous languages #93

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1ec5 opened this issue Nov 22, 2024 · 0 comments
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Localize labels into indigenous languages #93

1ec5 opened this issue Nov 22, 2024 · 0 comments
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new feature An entirely new feature rendering Issue with how something looks on the map tileservice Upstream issue with the OSM US Tileservice

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1ec5 commented Nov 22, 2024

As a followup to #92, OpenTrailMap could offer an option to go beyond labeling features in the user’s preferred language and also label indigenous names, which are often relevant to contextual awareness in outdoor spaces. That would be more difficult than the local-language glosses in OSM Americana, since the tiles and underlying data don’t indicate where specific indigenous languages or language families were traditionally spoken. Native-Land.ca maintains language distribution data and offers an API and tileset for this data, which is CC0-licensed. MapLibre comes with some very limited functionality for joining vector tile features to GeoJSON features, but with the sheer number of languages we’d be working with, we’d probably need to do the joining on the server side.

@1ec5 1ec5 added rendering Issue with how something looks on the map new feature An entirely new feature tileservice Upstream issue with the OSM US Tileservice labels Nov 22, 2024
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