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View the map in Irish (parks in Baile Átha Cliath being shown on OpenIrishMap

Map Internationalization is all about showing maps with place names written in a particular language.

We have translated name tags in the database to support this kind of rendering. See Translation#OpenStreetMap map data and Multilingual names

Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason has set up experimental renderings on the wikimedia toolservers:

cassini.toolserver.org is down at the moment ([1])

Serving worldwide alternate tile layers requires a lot of resources.

Early work

The Frisian language map was probably the first example of OpenStreetMap Map Internationalization (2008) but seems to be broken now. See User:Lambertus#Frisian language map (Fryske kaart)

For his GSoC project Arindam Ghosh mainly worked on Website Internationalization Ideas 2008, but had some other thoughts on map Internationalization. See Talk:GSoC Applications 2008#I18n of OSM pages and map tiles

User:Mikel experimented with rendering place names in arabic

See also

other Internationalization challenges

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