[sup]

This might come as West-centric and in a way it is, so apologies for that.

In countries where non-latin script is used, names of places tend to be in the local script, as Elevate (or OpenAndroMaps?) show the “name” tag. For people not knowing the local script, that is not very helpful, as they cannot read the names of the places. It would be helpful in such cases, if a transliteration in latin script were provided. Ideally, both would be used. That way, the displayed name is useful both for locals and for dumb visitors.

Technically I looked and it seems int_name is being used for this, with a possible fallback on name:en. More difficult might be detecting when a non-latin script is used, but I guess testing whether the name contains something in range of a-z or A-Z should do the trick.

I noticed this in Nepal, where Kathmandu is rendered only as काठमाडौं. I had troubles knowing what I am looking at when the map was zoomed out. But from what I looked, the same situation is in the Middle East, in Russia, in China and elsewhere. Below is a screenshot from Locus showing only local names and comparison from the Mapy.com app that uses OSM data and displays both local name and the international one.

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[Tobias]

Please have a look here, you can switch the displayed language of OAM:
https://www.openandromaps.org/en/manual/multilingual-maps

Developer of Elevate mapstyle

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ChristianK

[sup]

Oh, perfect! I wish I knew about this earlier, it had been bugging me for years.

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Tobias

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