Hi If we add wikidata entry, should it automatically import the translations ? wikidata <https://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Key:wikidata>=wikidata_entity <https://wiki.openstreetmap.org/w/index.php?title=Tag:wikidata%3Dwikidata_entity&action=edit&redlink=1>
*WIWOSM* (*Wi*kipedia *w*here in *OSM*) https://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/WIWOSM Wikiminiatlas do that https://wma.wmflabs.org/iframe.html?12.966666666666667_77.56666666666666_0_0_hi_4_hi_12.978515624999996_77.548828125&globe=Earth&page=%E0%A4%AC%E0%A4%82%E0%A4%97%E0%A4%B2%E0%A5%8C%E0%A4%B0&lang=hi On 7 April 2015 at 10:59, Aruna S <safincr...@gmail.com> wrote: > > > On Mon, Apr 6, 2015 at 2:40 PM, Srikanth Lakshmanan <srik....@gmail.com> > wrote: > >> Hello, >> >> Great work, I have been thinking this for sometime. I am of the opinion >> that place names(towns / villages etc) should be translated and not >> transliterated. Arun has a point about locality address as people might be >> so used to English, that they find translations in their own language >> unusable. >> >> For place names, would it be a good idea to run a script which can look >> up wikidata, extract names in multiple language and update OSM? Below is a >> sample query for 'Bangalore' in multiple languages. >> >> [1] >> https://www.wikidata.org/w/api.php?action=wbgetentities&sites=enwiki&titles=Bangalore&languages=hi|ka|ml|ta|or|mr|gu|te&props=labels&format=xml >> > > This seems like a wonderful idea. I'll use this while working on the > translation. Thanks. :) > > _______________________________________________ > Talk-in mailing list > Talk-in@openstreetmap.org > https://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk-in > >
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