[OSM-talk] Tag translation

[Mike Collinson]

Interesting, no one else has commented so I'll do so.  It is worth 
coming back to in the future either for localising tagging or for 
generating map key legends automatically in different languages.

If the backend ids and relationships they use between words in 
different languages is immutable so that if could be used as a lookup 
table by a script rather than just human viewing, as Paul says, this 
is a possible way of making OSM tagging more multilingual.

For example "railway station" id 4507 is translated into 22 different 
languages, each with an "identical meaning" tickbox checked:

http://www.wiktionaryz.org/index.php?title=DefinedMeaning:railway_station_%284507%29

I personally don't propose that we all start using railway=4507, but 
it does provide a mechanism to localise OSM down the 
track.  railway=station can be related to railway=railway_station can 
be related to railway=stazione_ferroviaria.

Mike
Manila

At 05:50 AM 11/12/2006, Paul Youlten wrote:
>I was wondering if WiktionaryZ might be a useful resource for OSM:
>
><http://www.wiktionaryz.org>http://www.wiktionaryz.org
>
>They have most of the features we use already translated into most 
>European languages and published under the GNU FDL.
>
>for example:
>Lock:
><http://www.wiktionaryz.org/index.php?title=DefinedMeaning:lock_%286547%29>http://www.wiktionaryz.org/index.php?title=DefinedMeaning:lock_%286547%29
>
>Church:
><http://www.wiktionaryz.org/index.php?title=DefinedMeaning:church_%28587%29>http://www.wiktionaryz.org/index.php?title=DefinedMeaning:church_%28587%29
>
>Motorway:
><http://www.wiktionaryz.org/index.php?title=DefinedMeaning:motorway_%282420%29>http://www.wiktionaryz.org/index.php?title=DefinedMeaning:motorway_%282420%29 
>
>
>Railway Station:
><http://www.wiktionaryz.org/index.php?title=DefinedMeaning:railway_station_%284507%29>http://www.wiktionaryz.org/index.php?title=DefinedMeaning:railway_station_%284507%29
>
>The code numbers at the end of defined meanings are fixed - which 
>might help make OSM tagging more multilingual.
>
>i.e if:
>highway=path
>
>could be written:
>1771=4382
>or
>highway=4382
>
>Just a thought.
>
>PY
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