Support multilingual name tags

[hanchao]

[rmarianski]

Thanks for submitting this. What we'd like to do is include the tags for alternate names (name:*) in the response only if those names are different from the name tag. This would help keep tile sizes down.

Some initial looking at taginfo [1] suggests that the number of features with alternate names is significantly smaller than the number of features with names. We might run some experiments to verify what the tile size impact will before rolling this out. We'll do some more research [2] into what other tags we might want to include, if any, in this scheme too.

[1] http://taginfo.openstreetmap.org/search?q=name
[2] http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Key:name

[rmarianski]

We now include name:* tags for features where that value is different from the name tag.

[musicformellons]

@rmarianski How do I get the values? I tried e.g. replacing {name} by {name:ru} or {name_ru} but do not get any values.

[rmarianski]

@musicformellons The separator is a :

Here's an example:

http://vector.mapzen.com/osm/places/16/32751/21790.json

[musicformellons]

In mapbox stylesheet -using mapbox gl js- I replace {name} (which works fine) with {name:fr} and get:

[nvkelso]

Try quoting it?

On Tue, Sep 22, 2015 at 8:09 AM, musicformellons [email protected]
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In mapbox stylesheet -using mapbox gl js- I replace {name} (which works
fine) with {name:fr} and get:
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https://cloud.githubusercontent.com/assets/10334123/10022336/91c5e16e-614c-11e5-88cc-6576eb3fa1d2.png

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[musicformellons]

Tried various ways of (single and double) quoting, but to no avail:

[nvkelso]

Suggest following up with Mapbox and reporting back here.

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On Sep 22, 2015, at 08:15, musicformellons [email protected] wrote:

Tried various ways of (single and double) quoting, but to no avail:

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[musicformellons]

ok, will do.

[musicformellons]

See:
mapbox/mapbox-gl-style-spec#362 (comment)

Could the : be altered into a _ ?