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I am using the Mapbox Static Image API to show users an image of a slice of a map relating to the page they are viewing. Our users are from many countries and expect properly localized country, city names etc.

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Is it possible to set the language of all labels in a Mapbox Static Image somehow?

I think I can achieve this by creating a Mapbox Studio Style for each language we want to support, but we have quite a lot of customization in our custom style so I would rather avoid having to manually maintain a version for all supported languages.

I have tried using the playground https://docs.mapbox.com/playground/static/ and also read through the documentation, without finding anything reminiscent of setting the locale

Wertisdk
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I think your only option is to create multiple styles for each language you want to support. You probably use a call like this to get your map:

/styles/v1/{username}/{style_id}/static/{overlay}/{lon},{lat},{zoom},{bearing},{pitch}|{auto}/{width}x{height}{@2x}

Use javascript to find your users browser preferred language: How to get the browser language using JavaScript

and change your {style_id} to the requested language.

Another option that comes to mind is to try to use multiple layers. All the background data and (complex) style in one layer, and make a separate layer with your labels. This way you only need to have different styles for your labels and the maintenance will be less of a hassle.

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  • So if I understand your second method correctly, I should remove the country, county and settlement labels from my Studio style and use the AddLayer option for the Static Image API to add them with the correct language? I guess that could work as a better and more scalable solution – Wertisdk Aug 14 '20 at 09:19