User-switchable languages about openstreetmap-americana

[ZeLonewolf]

An example of language switching can be found here:
https://openmaptiles.org/languages/native/#0.56/0/0

[ZeLonewolf]

Perhaps we could use something like Electron to create a tray: https://stackoverflow.com/questions/40485102/rich-html-tray-menu-in-a-desktop-web-application

[1ec5]

As of #581, the user can switch the label language by adding &language=, followed by one or more IETF BCP 47 language tags, to the hash part of the URL. This issue tracks an in-page control for switching the language.

As far as I know, this OpenMapTiles YAML file enumerates the ISO 639 language codes for which Planetiler adds name:* fields to the vector tiles. Intl.DisplayNames can turn these language codes into human-readable language names in either the original language or the user’s preferred language.

This project supports specifying a list of fallback locales. If we want the control to support that as well, then the ideal control would be a token field, which is not supported natively by the DOM but is available from a number of libraries.

[1ec5]

#609 adds a read-only display of the label language fallback list.

[ZeLonewolf]

Here is a proposed workflow for using simplistic text links: