[OSGeo Africa] RE: Examples of localised GIS
Andiswa Silinga
AndiswaS at ivanplats.com
Thu May 21 04:00:29 EDT 2009
Hi Brendon
I speak Xhosa and willing to be involved in the translation.
Regards
Andiswa
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Date: Wed, 20 May 2009 01:07:35 +0200
From: Tim Sutton <tim at linfiniti.com>
Subject: Re: [OSGeo Africa] Examples of localised GIS?
To: brendon at integratedgeodata.co.za, Africa local chapter discussions
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Hi
Brendon Wolff-Piggott wrote:
> Hi All
>
> I am giving a presentation at the Sci-Enza Career Exhibition at the
end of
> May. I would like to talk a bit about what open source GIS can offer,
> without getting technical as time is short and I need to cover general
GIS
> concepts too.
>
> Does anyone know of examples of localized open source GIS i.e. in one
of our
> official languages other than English?
You mean other than the 26 odd languages QGIS is translated into? :-)
Some languages have better coverage than others, but if you go into
Settings -> Locale Tab, you can force the locale to something other then
your system locale. After restarting QGIS, you get to use it in Chinese
/ Latvian / Lao or various other fun (but unfortunately unintelligable
by me) languages.
Are there any native speakers of any of the other 10 official languages
here on the list? It would be great to have Afrikaans, Xhosa, Zulu etc
added to the list of languages that QGIS has been translated into....!
Regards
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Tim Sutton, Linfiniti Consulting
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* QGIS Project Steering Committee Member (Release Manager)
* Visit http://linfiniti.com for more information
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Message: 2
Date: Wed, 20 May 2009 09:19:39 +0200
From: "Gavin Fleming" <GavinF at mintek.co.za>
Subject: RE: [OSGeo Africa] Examples of localised GIS?
To: <tim at linfiniti.com>, "Africa local chapter discussions"
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And is anyone from www.translate.org.za on this list? Perhaps they could
get involved after having translated various things like the Ubuntu
desktop, Firefox, OpenOffice, etc. into various SA languages.
Gavin
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Subject: Re: [OSGeo Africa] Examples of localised GIS?
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Hi
Brendon Wolff-Piggott wrote:
> Hi All
>
> I am giving a presentation at the Sci-Enza Career Exhibition at the
end of
> May. I would like to talk a bit about what open source GIS can offer,
> without getting technical as time is short and I need to cover general
GIS
> concepts too.
>
> Does anyone know of examples of localized open source GIS i.e. in one
of our
> official languages other than English?
You mean other than the 26 odd languages QGIS is translated into? :-)
Some languages have better coverage than others, but if you go into
Settings -> Locale Tab, you can force the locale to something other then
your system locale. After restarting QGIS, you get to use it in Chinese
/ Latvian / Lao or various other fun (but unfortunately unintelligable
by me) languages.
Are there any native speakers of any of the other 10 official languages
here on the list? It would be great to have Afrikaans, Xhosa, Zulu etc
added to the list of languages that QGIS has been translated into....!
Regards
- --
Tim Sutton, Linfiniti Consulting
==============================================
* QGIS Project Steering Committee Member (Release Manager)
* Visit http://linfiniti.com for more information
about the QGIS and FOSS services we provide.
* Skype: timlinux Irc: timlinux on #qgis at freenode.net
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