It’s strange to me that osm wants to be a global player and doesn’t provide at least an English map
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OSM provides multiple languages including English. Are you using a VPN connected to another country perhaps?
OSM is a database. It doesn’t have a a “language”, as it’s just a collection of tags and coordinates.
It sounds like you want to see a map where the name of features are displayed in English. Some notable renderers where you can set the display language:
- MapTiler OMT layer on osm.org: https://www.openstreetmap.org/#layers=V
- https://americanamap.org/
- https://osmapp.org/
- https://maps.wikimedia.org/?lang=en you can change the language in the url
Note that it should fall back to the “default” name when no English name is given, so don’t expect every text will be automatically translated or even romanized
I mean the interface definitely has a language…?
That interface is the “osm website” or usually called “osm.org”, a related project, but it has a different license and maintainers, and it’s just only one way to see the OSM databse. Source code is here: https://github.com/openstreetmap/openstreetmap-website
If you click on the Edit button by default you will be redirected to another project called iD editor, again with different license and maintainers: https://github.com/openstreetmap/iD
I usually use JOSM, Overpass Turbo and OsmCha to see the live database, and they are all semi-independent projects.
what’s an “English map”?
