maproulette / maproulette/maproulette-frontend
V4: Some Japanese place names are transliterated to their alphabetical form using Chinese phonetic readings.
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Description
What happened?
https://github.com/hyperknot/openfreemap/issues/24 had this same issue, the fix was to disable automatic transliteration on Planetiler by using --transliterate=false. But I don't know if you guys are generating your own tiles.
As mentioned in the issue, "Chinese transliteration of Japanese placenames is not useful at all, actually harmful, so I would suggest turning it off until a better solution or fix is found."
Alternatively, you could use OpenFreeMap tiles in the background since the automatic transliteration has been turned off there.
Steps to reproduce
Go to the beta website, zoom into Japan, and you will see placenames with wrong phonetic readings. https://beta.maproulette.org/#17.46/35.697026/139.677837
Environment
Waterfox 6.7.3 on Win 11
Additional information
Contributor guide
First steps
- Read the whole issue, then the project's contributing guide.
- Comment on the issue to say you are picking it up — it saves two people doing the same work.
- Fork the repository and make your change on a branch.
- Open a pull request that references the issue number.
Research direction
Start at the beta website and reproduce the Japanese place-name rendering at the linked MapRoulette location. Trace which tile source the frontend uses, then check whether tile generation can disable automatic transliteration as described; done means Japanese names no longer receive incorrect Chinese phonetic readings.
Written by the indexing model from the issue text.
Assessment
- Tech stack
- javascript
- Domain
- frontend, web-dev
- Issue type
- Bug
- Difficulty
- 4/5
- Estimated time
- 3-5 days
- Activity status
- Active
- Clarity
- Mostly clear
- Newbie friendliness
- 52/100