[Maps-l] [OSM-talk] Announcemen: Multilingual Country-List

[Peter Körner]

Hi

As I guessed the bug with the >100% comes from countries that aren't 
countries anymore. They are removed from the list with the hourly 
update, but if you got your list open while this happens you can still 
mark it as ok. so we got a country that only exists in this language - 
and more than 100% ok :)

I removed those countries and included a fix in the ajax-script that 
handles the mark-ok-request that checks for the existence of this 
country in the list.

Namely they are http://www.openstreetmap.org/browse/node/424313867 and 
http://www.openstreetmap.org/browse/node/424317578 which are both 
islands now. By the way i added 
http://www.openstreetmap.org/browse/node/25342325 (Alderney) which was 
somehow missing.

The other bug is a hard one. As long as I'm not able to reproduce it, i 
can't fix it.

I'm feeling sorry about having these bug in this tool. It was just an 
experiment, hacked together in three or four nights - so no clear 
structure in the programming nor the database. I know I can do better 
(I'm doing every day at work) but this was my first tool on a 
toolserver, my with first tool working with geo-data and my first tool 
using the osm-api, so please perceive it just as an hacky experiment - 
not fully worked-out tool, and thus be gently with me :)

Just had to say that.

Peter

> 
> I think there was a bug introduced during resorting of the list or 
> during the transition from
> zh-classic -> zh-classical. The list behaves strange. Once I noticed 
> that when i changed a
> country name in one language, the status of the same country name in 
> another language
> changed also. I cannot verify or nail down any bug from remote.
> 
> Please see also the image attached which shows a 100.43% progress for 
> translation of the
> Arabic country names.
> http://cassini.toolserver.org/~mazder/multilingual-country-list/?lang=ar
> 
> It reaches 100% when /Tromelin Island /is set to not-ok.