[OSM-talk] SOTM 2012 T-shirt

[Satoshi IIDA]

Hello from Japan.

The text in vertical lines are "七十億総伊能化 / Ino-rize 7 Billion people", means
the population of whole world.
And horizontal line, "一億 / 100 Million", means Japanese population = all of
Japan.

伊能/Ino is the most famous historical mapper in Edo-era.
He made a map of whole Japan by walking.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/In%C5%8D_Tadataka

So the text says "Let's make every human being Mappers".
Thank you for wearing it since 2012!!

Best regards,


2019年12月13日(金) 14:05 Nick Hocking <nick.hocking at gmail.com>:

> Can anyone, who was at SOTM 2012 tell me what the inscription on the front
> of the T-shirt says.
>
> I'm going to wear mine tonight at a "Japanese Night" at the Baseball and
> anyone from Japan who is there is bound to come up and ask me about it.
>
> I know it starts of "70 Million people can't be wrong.....
>
> An then I think it references a famous mapper in Japan who walked the
> llength an breadth of Japan in order to map it, many moons ago.  School
> children used to be taught him, but I can't remember his name.
>
> PS - chinese people are really confused about it - I think in their
> language it means something like "hey - I've got 70 million dollars!"  :-)
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