Hi, I had begun localization of OSM in Nepali in translatewiki.net .
If anyone want to help in localization , making it readable and comprehensible to lots of people without knowledge of English ,you people also can help OSM in that regards as well. Would it be possible to share the knowledge to the broadcast audience scattered in the different corners of the world ? That would be great if possible . Thanks for coming up for sharing ! Keep your good work up ! Thanks, Saroj On Jun 27, 2011, at 9:19 PM, Nama Budhathoki <[email protected]> wrote: > Hi Prabhas, > > Thanks for bringing www.openstreetmap.org (OSM) to this list. > > I studied openstreetmap for my PhD dissertation at the University of Illinois > at Urbana-Champaign, and will be happy to share my experience. I will be in > Kathmandu in the second week of July. Let me know if you are interested to > meet face-to-face and discuss more on this. > > Nama > > > > > > > On Fri, Jun 24, 2011 at 10:50 PM, Prabhas Pokharel > <[email protected]> wrote: > Hey FOSS community, > I am reaching out because I wanted to work on developing OSM > (http://openstreetmap.org)[1] further for Nepal, and we have some interest > from organizations who own significant GIS data to donate that to OSM. > > Once everything becomes a bit clearer, I also want to reach out to the larger > group, and see if there is interest to give demos of OSM, how to edit, why > OSM is cool, and building FOSS map software using OSM as base layer. > But before then, I wanted to reach out to ask if anyone has already been > working on OSM-related activities in Nepal, and can assist us (I have been > working with Jwalanta Shrestha and Jitendra Harlalka a bit) with the process > of finalizing both the data donation process and the data import. What I am > looking for is someone who either already has OSM/GIS experience, or who > wants to build some of that knowledge (not hard to do), or just loves maps. > Basiclaly, we will create a small team that will then continue the process of > finalizing this process of data import, and make OSM a very viable and usable > base layer of maps for Nepal. > > So, whos in? > > [1] - OpenStreetMap, for those who don't know is the freely editable and > community maintained map of the world, the Wikipedia of maps, if you would. > It is the basis of any FOSS mapping applications, because it has generic > licensing terms (did you know that you can't make offline cache of google map > images?) and is community maintained like FOSS projects. In fact, many FOSS > groups around the world have OSM as one of their primary activities. > > Prabhas Pokharel > http://twitter.com/prabhasp > Nepal mobile: +977 98137 91044 > US mobile: +1 347 948 7654 > skype/facebook/whatever: prabhasp > > -- > FOSS Nepal mailing list: [email protected] > http://groups.google.com/group/foss-nepal > To unsubscribe, e-mail: [email protected] > > Mailing List Guidelines: > http://wiki.fossnepal.org/index.php?title=Mailing_List_Guidelines > Community website: http://www.fossnepal.org/ > > > > -- > ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ > Nama R. Budhathoki, PhD, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, USA > Post-Doctoral Research Fellow, McGill University, Canada > http://budhathoki.wordpress.com > ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ > "Imagination is more important than knowledge." Albert Einstein > > -- > FOSS Nepal mailing list: [email protected] > http://groups.google.com/group/foss-nepal > To unsubscribe, e-mail: [email protected] > > Mailing List Guidelines: > http://wiki.fossnepal.org/index.php?title=Mailing_List_Guidelines > Community website: http://www.fossnepal.org/ -- FOSS Nepal mailing list: [email protected] http://groups.google.com/group/foss-nepal To unsubscribe, e-mail: [email protected] Mailing List Guidelines: http://wiki.fossnepal.org/index.php?title=Mailing_List_Guidelines Community website: http://www.fossnepal.org/
