Indic language maps [name only]

[naveenpf]

Need indic langauge maps only for the names.
http://mlm.jochentopf.com/

No of translations would improve if we can showcase indic language maps.

[planemad]

@naveenpf thanks for bringing this up. Any immediate application of this you are seeing?

If we migrate the style from raster to GL, this should be possible. Need to experiment. Reference: https://www.mapbox.com/mapbox-gl-js/example/language-switch/

[naveenpf]

@planemad We had offline discussions, what project we have to take up after state highways in Kerala. Few are interested in taking up translation of the map. It would be good to showcase ml map in osm.in, so that we will know the progress and will help to get more volunteers to contribute.My guess is this will help get more volunteers to contribute in all indic languages.

http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Kerala

[planemad]

@naveenpf Amazing! Following progress on the OSM wiki. cc @maning

[planemad]

Tried my hand at a GL Malayalam map

View

• Extracted the data via overpass query name:ml and place and created a Studio tileset using these instructions
• Created a new Studio style with the tileset, replaced the place label layers to use the uploaded data.

Next actions

• Blocked: Migrate default style to GL #15 Migrate the site to GL
• Create a js language switcher to switch to other Indic languages. Reference
• Automate syncing the Mapbox tileset with OSM data

cc @naveenpf

[naveenpf]

Thanks a lot @planemad ... excited to see malayalam map :-) ...

[planemad]

@naveenpf Can you suggest two Malayalam fonts to use. One with a variety of different weights like bold/semibold/light and another visually different to use for seas and oceans, like how we have serif typefaces in latin.

[naveenpf]

I think we can use Rachana Bold and AnjaliOldLipi
http://smc.org.in/fonts/

[santhoshtr]

Note that using good fonts is not enough. As we see in the gif above, the complex script rendering is completely broken. The library that renders the text on the maps should have complex script rendering capability.

[planemad]

@naveenpf updated to Rachana.

@santhoshtr yes, complex script rendering is yet to be built in GL maps mapbox/DEPRECATED-mapbox-gl#4 . Any good example you can point out for a test fixture?

[santhoshtr]

Any good example you can point out for a test fixture?

കോഴിക്കോട് (Kozhikkod/Calicut) should render as

[planemad]

Thanks @santhoshtr . From upstream, seems like we might start to see progress on this by mid April.

[manuvarkey]

Complex rendering is fine in mapbox-classic. See this.
[(https://api.mapbox.com/v4/manuvarkey.2267f3e9/page.html?access_token=pk.eyJ1IjoibWFudXZhcmtleSIsImEiOiJjaWdlMTZsd24xZWZ3NnJtNzk2dXhvcjJmIn0.coLgvL8Ct439UzhAmJwI1w#10/11.9836/75.8620)]

@santhoshtr - please see these bug reports for OsmAnd relating to this issue.
[https://github.com/osmandapp/OsmAnd/issues/2016]
[https://github.com/osmandapp/OsmAnd/issues/1161]

[planemad]

@manuvarkey thats right, the older raster tiles uses mapnik rendering which supports complex shaping. Bringing this support to in browser rendering with GL will take some more time.

For now, the best approach might be to allows layer switching between the english tiles and various languages created by individuals. The style+data updates will be the responsibility of the contributor.

[naveenpf]

@planemad what is your suggestion on making this as www.ml.openstreetmap.in with proper India borders ?