Re: [Maposmatic-dev] Localize for Japanese

[S.Higashi]

Hi David,

Thank you so much for your kind response.

> By the way, you had some minor issue with file names.
>
> For Maxime :
>   Higashi-san's maposmatic.git -> ocitysmap2.po
>   Higashi-san's ocitysmap.pot -> maposmatic.po

Sorry, it's my mistakes.

> It depends. How are organised Japanese street names?
>
> a) Is it something like:
>   "street somename"
>   "road somename"
>
> b) Or like:
>   "somename street"
>   "somename road"
>
> In case b), you don't need to do anything. The index will be correct,
> street names in their correct position.

Yes, out street naming is case b).

> In case a), you would need to give us those street prefixes ("road",
> "street", ...) so we could write needed Python code to improve the
> index.
>
> Maybe we can wait for Maxime to integrate your first translations.
> From generated maps we will decide if we need to make some additional
> changes or not.

I don't know where this is related to your sugestion,
Japanese addressing system is mainly defined by block, not street.
http://sivers.org/jaddr
Many streets in japan do not have a name.

>> Japanese locale
>> 'ja_JP.UTF-8'
>
> Thank you for the locale.
>
> Many thanks!
> Best regards,
> david

Shu Higashi