Presentation (in German) about OpenRailwayMap at GPN (Gulaschprogrammiernacht).

You are viewing a single thread.
View all comments View context
-1 points

The what?

permalink
report
parent
reply
0 points

When you submit a post or comment, there is a selection box to indicate what language it is. People can choose what language they do understand to filter out content they can not / are not interested in seeing. OP has selected “English” as the language of a post that is clearly in German.

permalink
report
parent
reply
0 points

Thanks, I didn’t know that a setting like that exists (I have not posted anything yet)

permalink
report
parent
reply
0 points

I would guess they are upset they engaged with a german language post when they set their account to show only their, presumably english, language.

permalink
report
parent
reply
0 points

I speak German just fine. It’s for other people. What’s the point of having a language setting if people are just going to stick “English” there?

permalink
report
parent
reply
0 points
*

Because this isnt German local news or something, this is a presentation on the inner workings of the railway map. Might very well be interesting to people regardless of language, you could probably turn off the audio and watch it with subtitles.

On principle you are correct though, the language setting isnt properly used most of the time.

permalink
report
parent
reply

OpenStreetMap community

!openstreetmap@lemmy.ml

Create post

Everything #OpenStreetMap related is welcome: software releases, showing of your work, questions about how to tag something, as long as it has to do with OpenStreetMap or OpenStreetMap-related software.

OpenStreetMap is a map of the world, created by people like you and free to use under an open license.

Join OpenStreetMap and start mapping: https://www.openstreetmap.org.

There are many communication channels about OSM, many organized around a certain country or region. Discover them on https://openstreetmap.community

https://mapcomplete.org is an easy-to-use website to view, edit and add points (such as shops, restaurants and others)

https://learnosm.org/en/ has a lot of information for beginners too.

Community stats

  • 186

    Monthly active users

  • 173

    Posts

  • 851

    Comments