On Wed, Aug 12, 2009 at 7:28 PM, Peter Körner <osm-lists@mazdermind.de> wrote:

Hello OSM folks

For the integration of osm into the wikipedia there will be localized
maps in all languages that have their own wikipedia. The problem is,
that a lot of countries are not translated yet.

To get an overview over the status and make translating those countries
more easy, I created a tool that can be found at

http://cassini.toolserver.org/~mazder/multilingual-country-list/

I'd like to encourage everyone to spend some time making translated maps
better. Comments welcome!

Peter

For the OSM translations, do we really want separate name:arz tags (Egyptian Arabic), when the country names are the same as standard Arabic? Having a separate Wikipedia for Egyptian was controversial in the first place, and many don't really consider it a separate language but rather consider it a dialect.

In the postgres db views, can we map the Arabic (ar) names to arz?

There may be other situations like this, where separate tags in OSM might not be needed.

-Aude

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