[HOT] Translating FieldPapers in now possible

2015-03-03 Thread Severin Menard
Hi, The website allows now a multilanguage support. Currently French and Japanese have been already requested, but I guess many other languages would be good to be added. You can request extra languages here: https://www.transifex.com/projects/p/fieldpapers/ Sincerely, Severin __

Re: [HOT] Translating FieldPapers in now possible

2015-03-03 Thread Kate Chapman
Hi Severin, There is ongoing work to improve Field Papers, a major part of this is to make it possible to translate it. I would suggest waiting until that is finished before beginning translation. Unless I missed an announcement somewhere looking for translators. Best, -Kate On Tue, Mar 3, 2015

Re: [HOT] Translating FieldPapers in now possible

2015-03-03 Thread Severin Menard
Hi Kate, I have been alerted by this GitHub ticket: https://github.com/fieldpapers/fieldpapers/issues/4 Is it a different multi languages platform project? There is already around 10 people who joined the translation team. Sincerely, Severin On Tue, Mar 3, 2015 at 5:15 PM, Kate Chapman wrote:

Re: [HOT] Translating FieldPapers in now possible

2015-03-03 Thread Kate Chapman
Hi Severin, Okay, than I guess they are looking for translators. I wasn't aware we were at that stage yet. :) -Kate On Tue, Mar 3, 2015 at 9:59 AM, Severin Menard wrote: > Hi Kate, > > I have been alerted by this GitHub ticket: > https://github.com/fieldpapers/fieldpapers/issues/4 > > Is it a

[HOT] Gentle grump

2015-03-03 Thread john whelan
Just for the heck of it I ran JOSM validation on a tile I was mapping before touching it. It turned up duplicate buildings, crossed buildings, lots of highways separated by a few inches etc. Do we need an idiot guide? A sort of this is how to provide the maximum benefit for the least effort. Mi

[HOT] Geotagged pictures (was Malawi Floods)

2015-03-03 Thread Severin Menard
Hi Kretzer, I created this Flickr group with geotagged photos: https://www.flickr.com/groups/2830215@N22/ If you click on the Map tab you can see them as markers over the imagery, unfortunately you cannot zoom close Here is a uMap using the georss from the Flickr group: you can zoom, but no imager

[HOT] Updates on GSoC and Outreachy

2015-03-03 Thread Cristiano Giovando
Hello, Google announced the list of organizations accepted in this year GSoC, but unfortunately HOT did not make it. We have such a big and awesome community of mappers, but we may need more active coding in our projects to have better chances in these programs. We are still very excited to see t

Re: [HOT] Updates on GSoC and Outreachy

2015-03-03 Thread Mhairi O'Hara
Hello Hotties, The participating organisations have now been announced on the Outreachy website [1]. We are happy to say that OSM and HOT have joined forces again, and are listed as OpenStreetMap. Please take a look at the list of finalised projects on our Outreachy landing page in GitHub [2], whe

[HOT] [FieldPapers] Development Update

2015-03-03 Thread Mhairi O'Hara
Hello Hotties, Following up from the e-mail sent out earlier by Severin, we just wanted to let everyone know that the Stamen team are working hard to enhance the Field Papers application [1] and have made great head way with its internationalisation [2]. It is now in a state where people can star