Good starting point for such an application seems to be the Amenity Editor: http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Amenity_Editor
In the moment it's difficult to select and editing nodes cities for large area. Only way I see is to use overpass API with a more or less cryptical URL[1] and adding a new name-tag is not so simple as it could be. So a simple to use webservice could involve more people.
So any help is welcome to create such a translating tool. Greetings Kolossos [1] JOSM remote control: http://localhost:8111/import?url=http%3A%2F%2Foverpass-api.de%2Fapi%2Fxapi_meta%3F%2A%5Bplace%253Dcity%5D%5Bbbox=4,45,9,52%5D Am 29.10.2012 18:06, schrieb Ab_fab:
Hi Tim, This looks very promising. I'm sure that many people fluent in two or more languages could get involved in the project, once a proper editing interface is set-up. There's already a lot to do for the regions and cities names. I'm thinking of one of my korean friend living in France at the moment, for who it would be easy to set the French city names and administrative subdivisions in hangul, based on the default (French) name. In my opinion, one should be able to _ log with his OSM account, _ set his translation language (e.g. Korean) _ set the desired area, and the type of administrative subdivision level (coutry, region, city ...) And the interface could propose _ the list of subdivisions found (for example by Nominatim), _ names in the translation language already present in the database _ names proposed, based on interwiki links _ check boxes to confirm that default name can apply in the destination language / or confirm that interwiki proposal is ok _ Fields to allow adjustment / addition of name in the destination language. Bye
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