[OSM-talk] [Maps-l] Announcemen: Multilingual Country-List

[Peter Körner]

Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason schrieb:
> On Wed, Aug 12, 2009 at 11:53 PM, Peter Körner<osm-lists at mazdermind.de> wrote:
>> Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason schrieb:
>>> On Wed, Aug 12, 2009 at 11:28 PM, Peter Körner<osm-lists at mazdermind.de> wrote:
>>>> Hello OSM folks
>>>>
>>>> For the integration of osm into the wikipedia there will be localized
>>>> maps in all languages that have their own wikipedia. The problem is,
>>>> that a lot of countries are not translated yet.
>>>>
>>>> To get an overview over the status and make translating those countries
>>>> more easy, I created a tool that can be found at
>>>>
>>>>   http://cassini.toolserver.org/~mazder/multilingual-country-list/
>>>>
>>>> I'd like to encourage everyone to spend some time making translated maps
>>>> better. Comments welcome!
>>> That's very useful, and it's nice to see the toolserver being put to good use.
>>>
>>> One thing that would be very useful is if you would offer a .osm file
>>> for download which would include all the place=country nodes so that
>>> one could mass-translate them in e.g. JOSM. You can do this making an
>>> OSM file whose contents are a concatenation of the various
>>> http://api.openstreetmap.org/api/0.6/node/ID where ID is the node ID.
>>>
>> I also thought about implementing inline-editing by just clicking the
>> wrongly translated name and do the commit to the api right from the
>> Toolserver. This way also the MySQL-DB behind the lists would be up2date
>> instantly.
> 
> I think tools such as this one would be most useful if they do
> directly commit to the API and offer an editing interface. As has been
> pointed out (in the "i18n-rich areas on the map" thread on osm-talk)
> the current editors for OSM data offer a very lousy interface if all
> you're interested in is contributing translations, since they aren't
> optimized for that at all.
> 
> So direct uploading would be nice, whether that happens with a single
> dedicated bot user or through proxying of OSM user accounts (e.g. via
> the still-to-be-merged oauth stuff) would certainly be nice.
> 
>> Don't you fear corrupt mass-imports as we got just some weeks ago? (see
>> http://cassini.toolserver.org/~mazder/duplicate-countries/)
> 
> IIRC The corrupted mass-import happened because someone ran the
> bulk_upload.py script on an OSM file without understanding how the
> bulk-upload tool worked. Granted if you offered an OSM file with all
> the place=country nodes you'd be morke likely to get that sort of (and
> other kinds) of sillyness as a result.
> 
> I'd much rather see a click-through launchpad-like interface to
> translate arbitrary objects :)
> 
Yes and that matches to me, too. I don't know nothing about 
bulk_upload.py but I think I know enough about the api to do a direct 
commit. I'll try to implement it this week.

I'ts so cool to see the progress-bars filling :)

Peter