[Maps-l] Announcemen: Multilingual Country-List

[Aude]

On Wed, Aug 12, 2009 at 7:28 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/<http://cassini.toolserver.org/%7Emazder/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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