Re: [Talk-in] Automating OSM translation into Indic languages

This is great. Aruna, we can use the Wikidata to get a first pass of the translation and then present the spreadsheet view for someone to eyeball and add missing? Cheers, Sajjad. On Tue, Apr 7, 2015 at 10:59 AM, Aruna S wrote: > > > On Mon, Apr 6, 2015 at 2:40 PM, Srikanth Lakshmanan > wrote:

Re: [Talk-in] Automating OSM translation into Indic languages

Hi If we add wikidata entry, should it automatically import the translations ? wikidata =wikidata_entity *WIWOSM* (*Wi*kipedia *w*here in *OSM

Re: [Talk-in] Automating OSM translation into Indic languages

On Mon, Apr 6, 2015 at 2:40 PM, Srikanth Lakshmanan wrote: > Hello, > > Great work, I have been thinking this for sometime. I am of the opinion > that place names(towns / villages etc) should be translated and not > transliterated. Arun has a point about locality address as people might be > so u

Re: [Talk-in] Automating OSM translation into Indic languages

>> That would be so wonderful! Would this mean that we > >1. Extract all the name tags within a bounding box to a >spreadsheet/document >2. Host the document somewhere for people to edit. >3. Update the map with the new tags > > Yes. I'm thinking how about we make this a web applica

Re: [Talk-in] Automating OSM translation into Indic languages

Transliteration might be harmful if its not reviewed, so depending on the process involved it might turnout to be a faster solution. We got community help for translating books names for Digital Library of India and Osmania university digital library. Is there a project for translating OSM places o

Re: [Talk-in] Automating OSM translation into Indic languages

On Monday 06 April 2015 12:42 PM, Aruna S wrote: > Google's transliteration APIs have deprecated > and Yahoo > is going to stop maintaining it's transliteration application > from April 9th. I am lo

Re: [Talk-in] Automating OSM translation into Indic languages

Planemad, I'm hoping that solving the transliteration problem is easier than solving the translation problem. Just auto-transliteration would be a nice initial goal to have. I'm looking for more libraries that can transliterate from English to at least one Indic language. The developer of SILPA ha