[josm-dev] Common presets for OSM editors?

Simon Poole simon at poole.ch
Thu Jun 25 13:47:17 UTC 2015


On that topic: I'm trying to convince the iD maintainers to at least
move all projects that are on transifex in to the OpenStreetMap
transifex organisation so that we can share "translation memory".

Naturally this doesn't apply just to editors, essentially we should be
using, as far possible, the same terms throughout all tools.

Yes we do have translation platform fragmentation with at least
transifex, translatewiki (osm.org) and launchpad (JOSM) in use. There is
however likely not very much we can do about the later (and I suspect
the translations are essentially lost due to licence issues).

Simon


Am 25.06.2015 um 15:21 schrieb Daniel Koć:
> W dniu 25.06.2015 14:40, Frederik Ramm napisał(a):
> 
>> In the long run, either everyone will use the github project set of
>> presets and we can kiss the JOSM ones with all their hand-curated
>> translation goodness goodbye, or everyone will keep using the JOSM
>> presets becasue they are simply better. Who knows what will happen.
> 
> One of my primary goals with common presets idea is a common translation
> pool, because I'd like to have consistent names across the project, as I
> wrote on the beginning of this thread - in other languages too. I feel
> we need more than just common tagging - presets make it less visible for
> average mapper, which is good and expected (BTW: without it translation
> would be impossible, because we store British English-based names
> directly in our database), but with this new level of abstraction we end
> up with unexpected naming fragmentation.
> 
> The names can be locally altered if developers need it (because there
> can be some corner cases as usual), but in general they should use the
> common naming scheme and translations. In the best case we could have
> the same naming and translations also on Wiki and in the object explorer
> on the main site ("?" button), so it's not just a problem with editing
> software and just English names.
> 

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