[OSM-talk] OSM in India

[Lester Caine]

On 16/06/15 03:01, Arun Ganesh wrote:
> Its a given that most users of new technology in the country are
> familiar with English, or atleast the Latin alphabet. One may not be
> able to speak the language but can easily read street signs and it is
> more familiar than localized signage. We have had trials with localized
> maps http://yogiks.github.io/osm-kn/map/ but apart from being good PR
> they have limited practical use in daily life.
> 
> We would need to support 22 languages and in offline mediums to make the
> maps truly accessible to most of the people. Till then maps will
> continue to be used only by a small class of the population..

Having just deleted the fourth email this morning from an Indian
software house offering to do my work for me a thought came to mind.
Perhaps I should be asking them how much they contribute to projects
like OSM. They still will not get any business, but perhaps if they all
started filling in details in India the same as we do for clients in the
UK ... they obviously have time to farm email accounts to spam ...

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