Well, slightly off-topic but I am often perplexed by the vitriol in OSM. I even shudder to post this statement because the environment has shown itself to be hard.
Maybe we can have conversations at SOTM about how to turn this tide in a collaborative way. Heather Heather Leson heatherle...@gmail.com Twitter/skype: HeatherLeson Blog: textontechs.com On Tue, Jul 12, 2016 at 2:04 PM, Jóhannes Birgir Jensson <j...@betra.is> wrote: > I don't know if they are using the English version in Mongolia but I doubt > it. You can already swap to 8 other languages on their website (top right > option). > > I did discuss Icelandic with Mapillary and they looked into available word > sets and concluded that it was more than sufficient to make Iceland itself > work in an Icelandic w3w implementation. > > The circle-jerk is strong here about w3w, they have a human readable > solution for GPS-coordinates (which OPL isn't sadly), they've pledged to > offer the source code if their business goes belly-up and seem to doing a > lot of good things. I'm slightly perplexed at the extent of vitriol they > suffer here. > > --JBJ > > Þann 12.07.2016 08:11, Janko Mihelić reit: > >> So they are using the english version? What good does that do to the >> local people? It would be easier to learn the GPS coordinates. >> >> Janko >> >> uto, 12. srp 2016. u 09:47 Steve Doerr <doerr.step...@gmail.com> >> napisao je: >> >> On 12/07/2016 00:23, Dave F wrote: >>> >>> This system [...] doesn't work in the real world. >>>> >>> >>> It's apparently used in Mongolia as of this month. So the proof of >>> the >>> pudding . . . >>> >>> -- >>> Steve >>> >>> --- >>> This email has been checked for viruses by Avast antivirus software. >>> https://www.avast.com/antivirus [1] >>> >>> _______________________________________________ >>> talk mailing list >>> talk@openstreetmap.org >>> https://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk [2] >>> >> >> >> Links: >> ------ >> [1] https://www.avast.com/antivirus >> [2] https://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk >> >> _______________________________________________ >> talk mailing list >> talk@openstreetmap.org >> https://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk >> > > > _______________________________________________ > talk mailing list > talk@openstreetmap.org > https://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk >
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