Hello Dirk! Today (Thursday, October 16, 2008) at 10:22 you typed:
> I will answer the German language related stuff. >> Cancel & Apply buttons are in english, OK is same in german ;-) > Where exactly? Either translation is missing or it is not marked for > translation. In all dialog windows, e.g. Preferences, Search, Download... There is probably some general QT switch for that. >> I'm slightly afraid that >> translating tags may lead to a "babel syndrom" (all parties have a perfectly >> working symbol set, but none are compatible) > Yes, that is true. But the translations are carefully designed to > represent actual mapping as well as map features and english meaning > (which sometimes conflict a lot). The set is the same as used for JOSM, > which is much larger BTW. The merkaartor subset was easy compared to this. > We already had that discussion. OFF as default is only acceptable for > long-time mappers and people who speak English fluently. This may be the > majority of people here on mailinglist or writing bug-reports, but surely > not the majority of people using OSM. I admit I havn't used JOSM for a while. Does it translate tags now by default? If so, I think the discussion is obsolete, since the decision has been taken elsewhere. -- Best regards, Boris _______________________________________________ Merkaartor mailing list [email protected] http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/merkaartor
