[Maps-l] Announcemen: Multilingual Country-List

[Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason]

On Wed, Aug 12, 2009 at 11:28 PM, Peter Körner<osm-lists at 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!

That's very useful, and it's nice to see the toolserver being put to good use.

One thing that would be very useful is if you would offer a .osm file
for download which would include all the place=country nodes so that
one could mass-translate them in e.g. JOSM. You can do this making an
OSM file whose contents are a concatenation of the various
http://api.openstreetmap.org/api/0.6/node/ID where ID is the node ID.