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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[–] 8 points 11 months ago* (2 children)

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:

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

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  • [–] 1 point 11 months ago (1 child)

    I mean the interface definitely has a language...?

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  • [–] 6 points 11 months ago*

    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.

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