Experimental Release of “Japan Map in Multilingual Notation” Using Vector Tile Data
AuthorsSUGA Masaki, NUMATA Yoshinori and NAKAMINAMI Kiyoaki
DOIAbstract The Geospatial Information Authority of Japan (GSI) defined the “Notation Rules of Geographical Names, etc. in English” and compiled geographical names and other data in English notation based on these Rules in 29 March 2016 for multilingual notation of geospatial information. In March 2019, GSI released on a trial basis a web map (“map in English notation”) using annotation vector tiles in which data in English notations are stored. Then, GSI configured a program for automatically converting annotations in different languages (French, Korean, simplified Chinese, traditional Chinese and Romanized Japanese) and displaying the results on the web browser. Finally, GSI published in 14 February 2020 a web map named “Japan Map in Multilingual Notation” implementing the program on a trial basis. This report describes our approach until the experimental release of the multilingual maps.
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