Wikipedia's article about OpenStreetMap is now available in 26 languages. The most recently added is a brief translation in Swahili, the East African language.
http://sw.wikipedia.org/wiki/OpenStreetMap It starts out by explaining that "OpenStreetMap (OSM) ni mradi shirikishi wa uumbaji wa ramani hairirifu na huria ya dunia." The article was started by a German user who claims not to speak Swahili, and only consisted of headlines, images and links. The text in Swahili was added by a native speaker of the language. Tanzania being the former colony "German East Africa", the Swahili Wikipedia has several German contributors. Maybe the Germans will go on a mapping safari as soon as Germany is covered. Parts of Nairobi and Mombasa are already mapped, apparently based on satellite imagery. -- Lars Aronsson ([email protected]) Aronsson Datateknik - http://aronsson.se _______________________________________________ talk mailing list [email protected] http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk
