As a newbie I hope you can excuse my possibly stupid question.
One immediately notices on this map that all places are written in the language of the country being looked at, Italian for Italy, French for France, Chinese for China, etc. I assume then, seeing that this is done by contributors that this is the way it is and only this. On the other hand I am hoping there is a way of only reading it in one language (preferably English). It is one thing reading most countries that use the alphabet, but China for example is impossible to read if one can’t read Chinese. Moving there soon make me most interested in this area of the world but as it stands is of no value to me.
Thank you
See http://forum.openstreetmap.org/viewtopic.php?id=31658
Please be aware that private mapping is illegal in China. http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/WikiProject_China#Legality