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<div class="moz-cite-prefix">Hi Sibi,<br>
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Great to see some progress with respect to adding Indic languages
in OSM. Although bulk uploading of data is generally discouraged,
you can look at Nomino[1] which is specifically made for name
translation. iD editor may be better to start with, but you can
also try out JOSM[2] and use its filter funtion[3] to filter out
features which don't have Tamil language tags in your downloaded
mapping data and easily add the Tamil names. It may take some time
in the beginning with JOSM, but once you get hold of it, you can
become a power mapper with it![4]<br>
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Normally I add Kannada names along-with English names whenever I
create any new element on OSM in Karnataka region and also add
them if I don't see Kannada names whenever I do regular mapping
usually with JOSM. Currently, I see that the number of Tamil names
in India[5] is almost half compared to rest of the world[6].
Hopefully, this difference would be decreased in near future as
more contributors begin to add regional language names alongside
English names.<br>
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[1]<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="http://nomino.openstreetmap.fr/">http://nomino.openstreetmap.fr/</a><br>
[2]<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="http://learnosm.org/en/josm/start-josm/">http://learnosm.org/en/josm/start-josm/</a><br>
[3]<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="http://josm.openstreetmap.de/wiki/Help/Dialog/Filter">http://josm.openstreetmap.de/wiki/Help/Dialog/Filter</a><br>
[4]<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="https://github.com/mapbox/mapping/wiki/Becoming%20a%20power%20mapper">https://github.com/mapbox/mapping/wiki/Becoming%20a%20power%20mapper</a><br>
[5]<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="http://taginfo.openstreetmap.in/keys/name%3Ata">http://taginfo.openstreetmap.in/keys/name%3Ata</a><br>
[6]<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="http://taginfo.openstreetmap.org/keys/name%3Ata">http://taginfo.openstreetmap.org/keys/name%3Ata</a><br>
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cheers,<br>
yogi<br>
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On 01/24/2016 11:09 AM, sibi kanagaraj wrote:<br>
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<div>Dear all , <br>
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As noted in the mail by Arun in Wikimedia India mailing list
[1],the translations for most of the map feature names is not
available in Indic Languagues . I am planning to take up the
task of translating a bulk amount of data to Tamil . But , I
am facing an issue as I am not that familiar (but eager to
know) about the OSM interface fro translation , and doing it
one node at a time . If some one has experience or fun in
translation interface please let me know .For now , I am doing
it this way as helped by <a moz-do-not-send="true"
href="http://www.openstreetmap.org/user/SrrReal">SrrReal</a>
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1. Go to <a moz-do-not-send="true" href="http://osm.org">osm.org</a><br>
2. Hit the edit button<br>
3. That opens the ID editor.<br>
4. Click on a street name for example<br>
5. On the left side, it displays the 'Name' text box. At the
right corner of the text box is a '+' sign.<br>
6. Hit that button to translate. From the resulting dropdown
pick Tamil as the language and doing the honours ;) <br>
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[1]<a moz-do-not-send="true"
href="https://lists.wikimedia.org/pipermail/wikimediaindia-l/2015-December/012389.html">https://lists.wikimedia.org/pipermail/wikimediaindia-l/2015-December/012389.html</a><br>
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<div>Regards, <br>
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<div>Sibi<br>
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