Re: [OSM-talk] How to Translate Strings in OSM to other languages

2019-05-31 Thread Shrinivasan T
Thanks Mateusz, Will read the import guidelines. As wikidata and other machine translation services cause license issues, will translate them all manually. Once the process is setup, few cycles of export/translate/import is done, we can create a web/mobile application for this. Shrini

Re: [OSM-talk] How to Translate Strings in OSM to other languages

2019-05-31 Thread Shrinivasan T
Thanks for the replies. I understand that if name:ta tag and its value is available, it is enough to build Tamil maps. But, the issue we face is there is not enough name:ta values. [out:json][timeout:3600][bbox:12.9201721,80.1238331,13.2401721,80.4438331];(node["railway"]["name"~"."]["name:ta"!~

Re: [OSM-talk] How to Translate Strings in OSM to other languages

2019-05-31 Thread Shrinivasan T
Hi Simon, > Before getting in to any of the details my first question would be: why are > you "translating" to Tamil, shouldn't the objects in question already have a > name (as in a name used by the local population in Tamil) that can simply be > used in OSM? Or is this more a question of usin

[OSM-talk] How to Translate Strings in OSM to other languages

2019-05-31 Thread Shrinivasan T
Hello all, I am Shrini from Chennai, India. My language is Tamil. I want to get the tamilnadu state map in OSM in Tamil. For this, few professional translators agreed to help on this. They are new to OSM and they scare to edit live with online OSM ID editor. All they need is a list of strings t