Clinton, On Tue, Dec 22, 2009 at 01:23:48AM +0100, Clinton Gladstone wrote:
Here is an example from my style file:
place=* {name '${name} (${name:en|not-equal:name})' | '${name} (${int_name|not-equal:name})' | '${name} (${name:zh_py|not-equal:name})' | '${name}' }
This will place one of the following values in parenthesis after the name, as long as the value is not identical to the name:
- The English name - The international name - The Pinyin romanization of the name (useful for place names in China)
OK, this is very useful. I would propose two things: 1. commit the not-equal filter to mkgmap 2. implement include files, possibly also a mkgmap --include option so that you could include the "Chinese sub-style" from the command line when needed, for any style whose definitions do not conflict with those in the sub-style.
As you can see, the intent is to add multilingual values to the map. As in the case of the international name, the name chosen is not necessarily specific to a certain language.
So what do you think of this? ;-)
Your example shows that the name rules could be best defined in a style file. Can you submit a patch for implementing include files in the style parser? And can you please resubmit the not-equal filter? Marko