Hello from Japan. The text in vertical lines are "七十億総伊能化 / Ino-rize 7 Billion people", means the population of whole world. And horizontal line, "一億 / 100 Million", means Japanese population = all of Japan.
伊能/Ino is the most famous historical mapper in Edo-era. He made a map of whole Japan by walking. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/In%C5%8D_Tadataka So the text says "Let's make every human being Mappers". Thank you for wearing it since 2012!! Best regards, 2019年12月13日(金) 14:05 Nick Hocking <[email protected]>: > Can anyone, who was at SOTM 2012 tell me what the inscription on the front > of the T-shirt says. > > I'm going to wear mine tonight at a "Japanese Night" at the Baseball and > anyone from Japan who is there is bound to come up and ask me about it. > > I know it starts of "70 Million people can't be wrong..... > > An then I think it references a famous mapper in Japan who walked the > llength an breadth of Japan in order to map it, many moons ago. School > children used to be taught him, but I can't remember his name. > > PS - chinese people are really confused about it - I think in their > language it means something like "hey - I've got 70 million dollars!" :-) > _______________________________________________ > talk mailing list > [email protected] > https://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk > -- Satoshi IIDA mail: [email protected] twitter: @nyampire
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