Mapping Jerusalem

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@haketem

Hello all,
I’m new to this project, and would like to map Jerusalem.
I hope I got tags etc right.

Welcome!

@haketem

There’s one problem I’m not quite sure on how to approach: Jerusalem is a multicultural city with Hebrew and Arabic speaking residents, and plenty of English-Speaking guests and tourists.
I’ve noticed much of East Jerusalem is mapped in Arabic, and West-Jerusalem in Hebrew.

How about making the street names in English + Hebrew/Arabic.
For instance Hillel Street will be
Hillel הלל
And Salah A-Din street will be
Salah A-Din صلاح الدين

Has anyone encountered other problems in mapping Jerusalem?

Personally, I don’t like having mixed values in the same tag.

The standard is that the “name” tag would be the language that’s spoken by the locals.

That means that in “Western Jerusalem” it would be Hebrew,
and in “Eastern Jerusalem” it would be Arabic.

Of course that doesn’t prevent using “name:he” and “name:ar” tags anywhere.
I’d like to ask one thing, however, and it is to always add “name:en” with English letters.

You should remember that Mapnik is not the only renderer, and that you shouldn’t “edit for the renderer”

The map can be rendered using any “name:*” tag.
Using mixed values could cause the English map to have names like: “Hillel ???” (no Hebrew characters…)
or “Salah A-Din ??? ???” (no Arabic characters…)

talkat.