Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason schrieb: > On Wed, Aug 12, 2009 at 11:53 PM, Peter Körner<[email protected]> wrote: >> Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason schrieb: >>> On Wed, Aug 12, 2009 at 11:28 PM, Peter Körner<[email protected]> >>> wrote: >>>> Hello OSM folks >>>> >>>> For the integration of osm into the wikipedia there will be localized >>>> maps in all languages that have their own wikipedia. The problem is, >>>> that a lot of countries are not translated yet. >>>> >>>> To get an overview over the status and make translating those countries >>>> more easy, I created a tool that can be found at >>>> >>>> http://cassini.toolserver.org/~mazder/multilingual-country-list/ >>>> >>>> I'd like to encourage everyone to spend some time making translated maps >>>> better. Comments welcome! >>> That's very useful, and it's nice to see the toolserver being put to good >>> use. >>> >>> One thing that would be very useful is if you would offer a .osm file >>> for download which would include all the place=country nodes so that >>> one could mass-translate them in e.g. JOSM. You can do this making an >>> OSM file whose contents are a concatenation of the various >>> http://api.openstreetmap.org/api/0.6/node/ID where ID is the node ID. >>> >> I also thought about implementing inline-editing by just clicking the >> wrongly translated name and do the commit to the api right from the >> Toolserver. This way also the MySQL-DB behind the lists would be up2date >> instantly. > > I think tools such as this one would be most useful if they do > directly commit to the API and offer an editing interface. As has been > pointed out (in the "i18n-rich areas on the map" thread on osm-talk) > the current editors for OSM data offer a very lousy interface if all > you're interested in is contributing translations, since they aren't > optimized for that at all. > > So direct uploading would be nice, whether that happens with a single > dedicated bot user or through proxying of OSM user accounts (e.g. via > the still-to-be-merged oauth stuff) would certainly be nice. > >> Don't you fear corrupt mass-imports as we got just some weeks ago? (see >> http://cassini.toolserver.org/~mazder/duplicate-countries/) > > IIRC The corrupted mass-import happened because someone ran the > bulk_upload.py script on an OSM file without understanding how the > bulk-upload tool worked. Granted if you offered an OSM file with all > the place=country nodes you'd be morke likely to get that sort of (and > other kinds) of sillyness as a result. > > I'd much rather see a click-through launchpad-like interface to > translate arbitrary objects :) > Yes and that matches to me, too. I don't know nothing about bulk_upload.py but I think I know enough about the api to do a direct commit. I'll try to implement it this week.
I'ts so cool to see the progress-bars filling :) Peter _______________________________________________ talk mailing list [email protected] http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk
