[OSM-talk] 26 languages

[Lars Aronsson]

Wikipedia's article about OpenStreetMap is now available in 26 
languages. The most recently added is a brief translation in 
Swahili, the East African language.

http://sw.wikipedia.org/wiki/OpenStreetMap

It starts out by explaining that "OpenStreetMap (OSM) ni mradi 
shirikishi wa uumbaji wa ramani hairirifu na huria ya dunia."

The article was started by a German user who claims not to speak 
Swahili, and only consisted of headlines, images and links.  The 
text in Swahili was added by a native speaker of the language. 

Tanzania being the former colony "German East Africa", the Swahili 
Wikipedia has several German contributors.  Maybe the Germans will 
go on a mapping safari as soon as Germany is covered.  Parts of 
Nairobi and Mombasa are already mapped, apparently based on 
satellite imagery.


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  Lars Aronsson (lars at aronsson.se)
  Aronsson Datateknik - http://aronsson.se