[OSGeo Africa] GIS terms in Afrikaans?

Chris chris at airphotoafrica.co.za
Fri Oct 26 06:35:57 PDT 2012


    What a wonderful opportunity to invent your own words.

    Please do not "anglisise"  the whole thing with direct translations -- 
    be originalc and unconventional. 

    I think that you would first have to pass them by the ATKV before they 
    became "official" 


    CM


On 26 Oct 2012 at 13:37, Frank Sokolic wrote:

> Hi,
 
> Do any of the South African list members know whether there are
> Afrikaans translations for GIS terms like zooming, panning, attributes,
> buffering, etc.? I'm busy translating some material into Afrikaans and
> all the Afrikaans-speaking GIS users I've asked use the English terms.
> Apparently Afrikaans translations don't exist. Is this true?
 
> Regards, Frank.
 




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