Re: [Wikimediaindia-l] Integration with OpenStreetMap

2010-03-30 Thread Srikanth Lakshmanan
On Tue, Mar 30, 2010 at 3:52 PM, Gerard Meijssen wrote: > Hoi, > I would love to know more. How do GaneshK and Tinucherian create their > articles, do they use maps, do they have maps with all the Indian places on > them.. do they have maps with all of them on it.. do they have maps with the > nam

Re: [Wikimediaindia-l] Integration with OpenStreetMap

2010-03-30 Thread Cherian Srikanth Ramarathnam
/10, Gerard Meijssen * wrote: > > > From: Gerard Meijssen > Subject: Re: [Wikimediaindia-l] Integration with OpenStreetMap > To: wikimediaindia-l@lists.wikimedia.org > Date: Tuesday, March 30, 2010, 3:52 PM > > > Hoi, > I would love to know more. How do GaneshK and

Re: [Wikimediaindia-l] Integration with OpenStreetMap

2010-03-30 Thread BalaSundaraRaman
's Turing Award Lecture --- On Tue, 3/30/10, Gerard Meijssen wrote: From: Gerard Meijssen Subject: Re: [Wikimediaindia-l] Integration with OpenStreetMap To: wikimediaindia-l@lists.wikimedia.org Date: Tuesday, March 30, 2010, 3:52 PM Hoi, I would love to know more. How do GaneshK and Tinu

Re: [Wikimediaindia-l] Integration with OpenStreetMap

2010-03-30 Thread Gerard Meijssen
Hoi, I would love to know more. How do GaneshK and Tinucherian create their articles, do they use maps, do they have maps with all the Indian places on them.. do they have maps with all of them on it.. do they have maps with the names in many countries.. including English.. Do they have maps with a

Re: [Wikimediaindia-l] Integration with OpenStreetMap

2010-03-28 Thread Srikanth Ramakrishnan
Giving Indian places an article is being done by GaneshK and Tinucherian. :D Translation is being done by others.. On 28 March 2010 19:32, Gerard Meijssen wrote: > Hoi, > Localisation is a project where there is a lot to win for the usability of > the Indian Wikipedias.. in my opinion, this is s

Re: [Wikimediaindia-l] Integration with OpenStreetMap

2010-03-28 Thread Gerard Meijssen
Hoi, Localisation is a project where there is a lot to win for the usability of the Indian Wikipedias.. in my opinion, this is something that in my opinion an Indian chapter could and should champion. For your information OSM also gets localised at translatewiki.net. Giving all the Indian places a

Re: [Wikimediaindia-l] Integration with OpenStreetMap

2010-03-28 Thread Srikanth Ramakrishnan
I don't get it. What does localisation have with OSM? Unless OSM has to be localised? On 28 March 2010 18:46, Gerard Meijssen wrote: > Hoi, > I have been so bold to write about getting information out about the > villages, towns and cities of India. There are several problems that I see: > >

[Wikimediaindia-l] Integration with OpenStreetMap

2010-03-28 Thread Gerard Meijssen
Hoi, I have been so bold to write about getting information out about the villages, towns and cities of India. There are several problems that I see: - there are many villages, towns and cities in India - there are many Wikipedias that should be interested in all these places - the integr