Israel Streets in English and not in Hebrew characters

Right now the plan is to render the whole country on a regular schedule. Depending on the length of time to run all the processing of the tiles and syncing them to the display VPS.

Suggestion to Baruch: Add an instance of OpenStreetBug to your server.

I’ll look at adding OSB POIs on top of my maps, for now let’s just get something running.

You can look at http://osm.ev-en.org/

There are maps in Hebrew, English, Russian and Arabic. I don’t think there is any Amharic data to be worth including the map, but it will be easy to add once someone bothers filling some data in there. I’m not sure about Russian either.

The point of these maps is that if there is text in the wanted language name:lang is used, if not, the name tag is used. These maps cover the whole world but are mostly rendered on demand, so expect slow browsing unless someone already watched this part of the map you try to watch.

For now the map data is old (over a month old), I’ll try to catch it up, but it takes a while and I need to script this to be automatic.

The plan is for the data to be updated about daily in an automatic way.

The site is down for maintenance, I’m reloading the data to have the newest planet file as I had a very old planet beforehand and using daily updates was too slow. It will be a day or two before the site goes back up.

I’ve already translated many country and capital cities to Hebrew so the high level map will look nicer to Hebrew speakers. English is already pretty common but some work there would be useful as well and Russia and Arabic will need work as well.

I’m going to change the rendering of non-English languages to use English as a fallback before using the original language name, this will make it a bit more useful to the international users. In this way place names that are currently in Arabic and have an English name will show up in English to Hebrew users.

The website is back up with mostly up-to-date data, it is now being updated to the 26th, so it’s only a day behind.

For now I’ll run updates manually until I’ll be sure everything is fine and then I’ll set it up to update daily automatically.

Hi,

I found a navigation system wich can display street names and citys in a chosen language, f.e. english:

OSMAND

Just change Settings, General, Map preferred language.

OSMAND is free, you can have 10 downloads and wiki poi is disabled.

You can download and convert your own maps.

There is also a payed version, then you can download free and have wiki poi.

I did not have a trip with it.

For long trips the calculation can be slow.

Kind regards,

JanFlorijn

Hi
So is there any easy way to export israel maps to PDF in English?
Thanks
Doron

Hi,

As far as I now not, but I am not experienced.

What is the purpose? Printing maps on paper so you can navigate with paper?
Which OS you want to print from?

I will look what I find.

Kind regards,

JanFlorijn

try this one

http://toolserver.org/~osm/locale/en.html?zoom=16&lat=32.047&lon=34.7634&layers=BT
Unlike mapnik though, it doesn’t have internal capabilities to export PDF. You’ll have to manage through printing.

Hi,

I know that it is possible with http://www.viamichelin.com, but I do not kwow if this is available for Israel and in english for israel. Just to understand wath you need.

You can print a page and save it to pdf.

Hre two screenprints and a pdf file.

https://drive.google.com/file/d/0B8X24IrD0Equa2xHSEluRGNzMkE/edit?usp=sharing
https://drive.google.com/file/d/0B8X24IrD0EquckZHU3pyQ3E4bUk/edit?usp=sharing
https://drive.google.com/file/d/0B8X24IrD0EquejZoZUZadXI0WXc/edit?usp=sharing

Kind regards,

JanFLorijn

Hello
Is there any easy option to use OTM in Enaligh at Athens q Jerusalem or other non English citys? and to download a PDF file of the map?
Thanks
Doron

Wich operating system you use?

In Ubuntu it should be possible to print to PDF. So finding a map on screen and printing it could be a solution.

Kind regards,

JanFlorijn

And to do right to Windows: [ALT][PrintScreen]the required map and paste it in Libre Office and save it as PDF.

Kind regards,

JanFlorijn

Hi JanFlorijn
The problem is not downloading the map
I need the map of Athens or Jerusalem in English not in Hebrew or Greece…
Doron

Hi,

There was a solution with Mobile Atlas Creator (MBAC) 1.8. Based on Google maps it was possible to download english maps.

Due to CopyRight problems this funtionality has been disabled in later versions.
Providing this version 1.8 to you should not be legal.

Viamichelin did not work, or does not exist for Jerusalem/Athene?

Kind regards,

JanFlorijn

When I go to www.google.com/maps and I move to Jerusalem I get english street names. Does this work for you to?

Hi,

When you surf to google.com/maps and the street names of f.e. Jerusalem are not displayed in english it is advised to use a vpn:

http://www.vpngate.net/en/

Important notice: The given ip-adresseses change after a few weeks, so when it works check if the given IP-adress is active.

This is an project of a japanese university wich may not have commercial activitys.

The effect is choosing f.e. a ip from US that surfing the web you are seen as a US citysen. Surfing to Google.com/maps will display english street names.

Kind regards,

JanFlorijn

Has there any progress been made with displaying english (or at least some latin characters) names to display maps from Israel?

The problem is: I contribute to wikivoyage, the open source travel guide, a sister project to wikipedia.
We changed the maps display completely to Open Street Map for licence reasons, on Wikimedia projects only open source resources should be used.

Now, all the maps, point of interests, etc. is displayed in plain hebrew - not too much iof a help for someone travelling to Israel who cannot read hebrew.
I think we could make an effort to add english language tags to the major town, but as they are not displayed in Mapnik or this cannot be set to display english language tags, it is not of any help.

Is there an approach to solve this. I’m afraid you might have problems the other way round: I can read some greek, so greek maps with greek language are more or less helpful, but for an Israeli travelling to a greek island, this might be also challenging…

Kind regards Martin

The suggestion I heard was to use the Germany site:
https://www.openstreetmap.de/karte.html?zoom=6&lat=14.55325&lon=100.49883&layers=B000TF
which shows Western characters (where existing) above the local language.

Thanks very much, indeed, it works with the german server, on the Swiss OSM, the map is only rendered with local language tags…
Meanwhile i have also found the way to switch the Israel Hiking Map to english language level - for non hebrew speakers, it’s not that much self explaining… - but I found the way and it works, great!

Now we hope, that for wikivoyage, we well have the possibility to have the Wikimedia or Mapnik maps we use as a standard to be switched to other language tags, at least now I know that they exist.
The links to earlier projects of a multilingual map are dead, we still do no not want officially to rely on Google maps in the open source travel guide (although most people will do anyway), but I hope that Wikimedia will arrive at that functionality one day (the Wp Mini Atlas is already multilingual but it’s loading terribly slow here.

Thanks for your support martin