Re: [Talk-in] How to get a bot account to upload translated strings for OSM?

2017-10-17 Thread muzirian
Nice project  On Tuesday, October 17, 2017, Shrinivasan T wrote: > > This is such an awesome project and love how easy it is to translate! > Such > > an easy to use mobile interface is a great contribution to localize the > > world map [1]. > > Thanks :-) > > Join the

Re: [Talk-in] How to get a bot account to upload translated strings for OSM?

2017-10-17 Thread Shrinivasan T
> This is such an awesome project and love how easy it is to translate! Such > an easy to use mobile interface is a great contribution to localize the > world map [1]. Thanks :-) Join the OSM_Tamil bot and give a try. > > Before getting a bot account, it would be great to demonstrate that the >

Re: [Talk-in] How to get a bot account to upload translated strings for OSM?

2017-10-17 Thread Arun Ganesh
> > As we can not get the user's OSM credentials as text in telegramBot, > we need a bot account to update OSM with the tamil names to all the > relevant english names that volunteers have translated. > > Is this process is fine? > > This is such an awesome project and love how easy it is to

Re: [Talk-in] How to get a bot account to upload translated strings for OSM?

2017-10-17 Thread Shrinivasan T
>Are you generating strings for the software which runs openstreetmap.org, or >translating place names in >OpenStreetMap data? If the latter, you shouldn't >upload them. The name:* tags in OSM are for names in >different languages, not >for translations of names to different languages. Later

Re: [Talk-in] How to get a bot account to upload translated strings for OSM?

2017-10-17 Thread Paul Norman
Are you generating strings for the software which runs openstreetmap.org, or translating place names in OpenStreetMap data? If the latter, you shouldn't upload them. The name:* tags in OSM are for names in different languages, not for translations of names to different languages. On

[Talk-in] How to get a bot account to upload translated strings for OSM?

2017-10-17 Thread Shrinivasan T
We are working on a TelegramBOT to translate strings for OSM. Last saturday, we released and demonstrated a telegram bot 'osm_tamil' to translate strings for openstrertmaps.org at ilugc meet. Here is a quick walk through video in Tamil. https://youtube.com/watch?v=dJkeRKuu1F8 Source code is