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Would be fun to (a) put the historic roman names for places in OSM, and (b) create map tiles that mimic the maps that are shown when clicking on the places. Wou
by ygra 4y ago
Would be fun to (a) put the historic roman names for places in OSM, and (b) create map tiles that mimic the maps that are shown when clicking on the places. Would make for a much nicer presentation than the default OSM tiles (which aren't exactly meant for this sort of thing).
- Freak_NL 4y agoWell, lots of places already have name:la (Latin) tagged, and since it is a dead(-ish) language it often matches the historic name Romans used, but you'll get edge cases like Lugdunum Batavorum which has been used as the Latin name of Leiden since the renaissance, but which is now considered to have been the name of nearby Katwijk. So the tag name:la=Lugdunum Batavorum is correct for Leiden (it is called that in Latin), but arguably not historically correct (it's not the same Lugdunum the Romans knew).