[HOT] Translating OSM

[Katie Filbert]

On Fri, Aug 27, 2010 at 11:09 AM, Jonas Krückel <osm at jonas-krueckel.de>wrote:

> If you think a Haitian Kreyol version of Walking Papers would be really
> helpful, I could do the same you did for MapOSMatic for WP (Word
> Document...) since I did the German translation of WP and I'm familiar with
> the process. Of course this Word Document could then easily be used for
> other languages as well. However, if possible, I would prefer having someone
> doing it directly in the source files with Git. But if that's too
> complicated, I'm happily going to do it the other way as well.
>
> -Jonas
>
>
Turns out a spreadsheet is not best.

Translatewiki and Launchpad support exporting translations as .po files,
which can be opened in Word or any text editor.

The trick would be to save them as text / po files.  I suppose if they got
saved as Word format, we can deal with it.

I'm putting the .po files on github now.




> Am 27.08.2010 um 17:01 schrieb Kate Chapman:
>
> > Katie,
> >
> > I have people that can help with the Haitian Kreyol (they are going to
> > do MapOSMatic shortly).  I need to have clear instructions to send to
> > non-technical people though.  For example with MapOSMatic I'm putting
> > the lines that need to be translated put into a Word Document and then
> > I'm going to paste them back in when I get them back.
> >
> > -Kate
> >
> > On Fri, Aug 27, 2010 at 10:55 AM, Katie Filbert <filbertk at gmail.com>
> wrote:
> >> We can use help with translating the OpenStreetMap interface, as well as
> >> Potlatch and OpenLayers, via translatewiki.net.  If anyone needs help
> >> getting going on translatewiki, I can help.
> >>
> >> http://translatewiki.net/wiki/Translating:OpenStreetMap
> >>
> >> JOSM can be translated via launchpad:
> >>
> >> https://translations.launchpad.net/josm/trunk/+pots/josm
> >>
> >> Walking papers can also be translated:
> >>
> >> http://github.com/migurski/paperwalking
> >>
> >> We still need much help with Haitian Kreyol, as well as Urdu and many
> other
> >> languages.  Having OSM in one's native language obviously will make it
> much
> >> easier for people to use.
> >>
> >> -Katie
> >>
> >> --
> >> Katie Filbert
> >> filbertk at gmail.com
> >> @filbertkm
> >>
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Katie Filbert
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