[OSM-talk] The Open Source OpenStreetMap Book

[Ian Dees]

Looks like the French translation is already happening here:

http://booki.flossmanuals.net/openstreetmap_fr/_edit/

On Mon, Oct 24, 2011 at 7:37 AM, Jaakko Helleranta.com <
jaakko at helleranta.com> wrote:

> Can the translation b crowdsourced?
> Google translate toolkit allows a number of ppl to work on a given
> translation. Is there reason not to use that?
> -J
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> -----Original Message-----
> From: Kate Chapman <kate at maploser.com>
> Date: Sun, 23 Oct 2011 20:41:34
> To: Jaakko Helleranta.com<jaakko at helleranta.com>
> Cc: Ian Dees<ian.dees at gmail.com>
> Subject: Re: [OSM-talk] The Open Source OpenStreetMap Book
>
> Hi Jaakko,
>
> Nope nobody in DC has the books.  Ian is going to send me some of them
> to spread around, but I have no idea of the timing of that.  Also I'm
> not in home very much.
>
> Yes the plan is to translate the book into French.  I have no idea of
> the timing of that though.
>
> There is translation of LearnOSM being worked on as well, but I have
> no idea how long that is going to take.
>
> -Kate
>
> On Sun, Oct 23, 2011 at 7:25 PM, Jaakko Helleranta.com
> <jaakko at helleranta.com> wrote:
> > Hi ya.
> >
> > I thought of writing to Kate only but then thought to shoot the email to
> > both of you.
> >
> > I was just about to order a stack of these books to DC (where I'm going
> to
> > visit for Halloween) to bring the books back to Haiti for our new school
> > student mappers.
> >
> > The questions: In case my order doesn't arrive in time, is there someone
> in
> > DC area with these books in the shelf? And if so should I get the books
> from
> > that person rather than Lulu to begin with?
> > I was thinking of something like 10 or 20 copies.
> >
> > And #2: Was/is the French version already in the making? There's clear
> > interest for that here and it's really only a question of coordination to
> > get either this and/or the LearnOSM text translated.
> >
> > Thanks!
> > -Jaakko
> >
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> >
> >
> > On Sat, Oct 22, 2011 at 6:24 PM, Ian Dees <ian.dees at gmail.com> wrote:
> >>
> >> Hi all,
> >> Over the last week, Kate Chapman, Shaun McDonald and I worked together
> >> with some professional documentation people to write an open source
> >> OpenStreetMap getting started book.
> >> Please read my diary post to get an idea of what we
> >> did: http://www.openstreetmap.org/user/iandees/diary/15152
> >> We're looking for feedback and help keeping it up to date. In the
> >> medium-term we'd like to expand this book so that it can replace the
> Getting
> >> Started pages on the wiki and create a second book to cover the more
> >> technical use cases (pulling the technical bits out of this current
> doc).
> >> -Ian
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> >
> >
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