On Wed, Jul 22, 2009 at 8:34 PM, Peter Körnerpeter@mazdermind.de wrote:
All 279 languages are now up, note that clicking on any of those will very likely yield a blank page when you first try it since it'll have to render the world at zoom 2 for that language (unless someone had it rendered already):
http://cassini.toolserver.org/tile-browse/
But some of them are already up:
I came across some encoding problems on the german map: http://tinyurl.com/ngu965
they seem to be better on the english one: http://tinyurl.com/msqlea
but in comparison to the official osm-page they are missing localized names: http://tinyurl.com/mwd64c
i also saw some not-translated country-names. e.g. on http://tinyurl.com/m6rhc5 "Democratic Republic of the Congo" should read "Demokratische Republik Kongo", also "Central African Republic" should be "Zentralafrikanische Republik".
Sorry I missed this E-Mail 6 days ago.
All the issues you point out can be explained by what tags the OSM data contains and how the translation views for the i18n map work.
When I render the German map I'm checking if a "name:de" key exists for the given feature, if it does I use that, if not I fall back on "name".
Here's one of the towns in your first examples:
http://www.openstreetmap.org/browse/node/245765070
As you can see it has name:en but no name:de
And the reason you see "Democratic Republic of the Congo" but not "Demokratische Republik Kongo" is because that country node has no name:de tag: