[OSM-ja] Fwd: [OSM-talk] Translating the world

[Daniel Kastl]

Just wanted to forward this email, because I think it affects Japan.

I'm very glad to see multi-lingual maps, but again I'm worried about many
"name" tags in Japan, which are like "name=東京 (Tokyo)".
In my opinion this is not so good idea, because it's tagged for the OSM
renderer. But I know there was a discussion about this already.

It would be better to "fix the renderer" to provide maps in multiple
languages, like the example below:

Daniel



---------- Forwarded message ----------
From: Kolossos <tim.alder at s2002.tu-chemnitz.de>
Date: Fri, Oct 26, 2012 at 5:27 AM
Subject: [OSM-talk] Translating the world
To: talk at openstreetmap.org


Hello,
in the last two weeks I translated all countries in all languages that are
available in the unicode-Project CLDR[1]. For this I used Overpass-API link
for country codes ISO3166-1[2].

In the second step I translated all capitals in tons of languages by using
InterWikiLinks of Wikipedia and Addtags[3] together with Overpass-API[4]
and Nominatim.

You can check the results for zoom levels 0-6  with map on
Wikimedia-toolserver[5], by changing languages under "options" (You can use
up- and down-key).

I hope I didn't make more mistakes than native speaker would do by hand.

These things were a small step to support multilingual-maps[6] on low zoom
levels. For the next steps more people are necessary.
In my eyes it seems useful to work as next step on the regions that are
regulated in ISO3166-2, but we have no clean tagging schema for this.
A source for translation could by a debian project[7], but I need to
clarify the legal aspects.

Other important thing would be to translate large cities or isles.

Any comments and ideas?

Greetings Tim alias Kolossos


[1]http://cldr.unicode.org/
[2]http://taginfo.**openstreetmap.org/keys/**country_code_iso3166_1_alpha_2<http://taginfo.openstreetmap.org/keys/country_code_iso3166_1_alpha_2>

[3]http://wiki.openstreetmap.**org/wiki/JOSM/Plugins/**
RemoteControl/Add-tags<http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/JOSM/Plugins/RemoteControl/Add-tags>

[4]http://taginfo.**openstreetmap.org/tags/**capital=yes<http://taginfo.openstreetmap.org/tags/capital=yes>

[5]
http://toolserver.org/~**kolossos/openlayers/kml-on-ol-**
json3.php?lang=en&zoom=3&lat=**50.51632&lon=5.85569&layers=**0B0000TFFF<http://toolserver.org/~kolossos/openlayers/kml-on-ol-json3.php?lang=en&zoom=3&lat=50.51632&lon=5.85569&layers=0B0000TFFF>

[6]http://wiki.openstreetmap.**org/wiki/Multilingual_maps_**
Wikipedia_project<http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Multilingual_maps_Wikipedia_project>

[7]http://pkg-isocodes.alioth.**debian.org/<http://pkg-isocodes.alioth.debian.org/>



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