On Tue, Oct 26, 2010 at 5:56 PM, Hardgrave, Roman <[email protected]> wrote: > Hello, > We are considering doing a translation project to add some westernized names > to roads and places in several Asian cities. We're planning to start with > Beijing and see how it goes. We wanted to get feedback on our plan from the > community before we got started.
There is a sort-of-similar project for country names. OSM contributor and Wikipedian "Mazdermind" is the lead on this if I remember correctly. They provide a page that tallies the number of country names in each language. Have a look. http://toolserver.org/~mazder/multilingual-country-list/ As a project, we're not crazy about grouping edits through a proxy username. That isolation from the OSM community makes accountability and dispute resolution difficult. The translation effort above provides an easy way to find something that needs translating, that you feel qualified to translate and an easy link to the object to translate in josm or potlatch. In the end the translator uses their own account to connect directly to OSM to perform the edit. The API also supports oauth so that your translation application can be authorized by a user to use their credentials. The translator would still have to sign up on OSM. This would allow you to simplify the interface for the translator. http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Oauth _______________________________________________ Imports mailing list [email protected] http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/imports
