Re: [Maposmatic-dev] [PATCH] [ocitysmap] Rescale category header where needed

[Jeroen van Rijn]

On Tue, Apr 17, 2012 at 16:16, David MENTRE <address@hidden> wrote:
> Hello Étienne,
>
> 2012/4/17 Étienne Loks <address@hidden>:
>> On the other side, on the sample given by Jeroen there are problems with
>> many "T" section probably because of streets begining with "'t".
>>
>> I take a look at this.
>
> I also saw this. But is it a MapOSMatic bug or an OSM bug? We should
> not implement workarounds around OSM errors. :-)

Both and neither. It's an artifact of the language having been set to
German. The index sort that I wrote for Dutch maps doesn't show this
defect.

It's due to a peculiarity of the Dutch language. Where French has Rue
de la <x>, and you'd sort it as <x>, Rue de la, I do some similar
magic with -L nl_NL.UTF8 that makes sense for Dutch articles/prefixes.

The 't versus T case is a defect in ocitysmap that shows up in all
languages other than Dutch, because they don't have the prefix work
I've done. The streets are correctly named after all, so in the
general i18n class the sort order could sort on a copy of the street
name with spaces removed?

There are plenty of defects in the data, though, which I'll fix once
the OSM database is write-enabled again. By this I mean streets named
twice like 'de Sering' vs. 'De Sering'.

I'll upload the same area rendered with -L nl_NL.UTF8 so you can see
what I mean.

In short: Whilst there are defects in the OSM data that we shouldn't
paper over, the 't / T case isn't one of them. That data is correct.

Thanks,
Jeroen.

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