RE: Examples of localised GIS
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Andiswa Silinga
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Hi Brendon
I speak Xhosa and willing to be involved in the translation. Regards Andiswa |GIS Manager|Ivanhoe Nickel & Platinum (SA) (PTY) LTD.| |Tel:+27-11-8835229|Fax:+27-11-8835226|Cell:+27 833065239| |EMAIL:[hidden email]| -------------------------------------------------------- This message contains confidential information and is intended only for the individual named. If you are not the named addressee you should not disseminate, distribute or copy this e-mail. Please notify the sender immediately by e-mail if you have received this e-mail by mistake and delete this e-mail from your system. E-mail transmission cannot be guaranteed to be secure or error-free as information could be intercepted, corrupted, lost, destroyed, arrive late or incomplete, or contain viruses. The sender therefore does not accept liability for any errors or omissions in the contents of this message, which arise as a result of e-mail transmission. If verification is required please request a hard-copy version. -------------------------------------------------------- -----Original Message----- From: [hidden email] [mailto:[hidden email]] On Behalf Of [hidden email] Sent: 20 May 2009 06:00 PM To: [hidden email] Subject: Africa Digest, Vol 29, Issue 6 Send Africa mailing list submissions to [hidden email] To subscribe or unsubscribe via the World Wide Web, visit http://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/africa or, via email, send a message with subject or body 'help' to [hidden email] You can reach the person managing the list at [hidden email] When replying, please edit your Subject line so it is more specific than "Re: Contents of Africa digest..." Today's Topics: 1. Re:? (Tim Sutton) 2. RE: Examples of localised GIS? (Gavin Fleming) ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Message: 1 Date: Wed, 20 May 2009 01:07:35 +0200 From: Tim Sutton <[hidden email]> Subject: Re: [OSGeo Africa] Examples of localised GIS? To: [hidden email], Africa local chapter discussions <[hidden email]> Message-ID: <[hidden email]> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 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 ============================================== -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.9 (GNU/Linux) Comment: Using GnuPG with Mozilla - http://enigmail.mozdev.org iEYEARECAAYFAkoTO7cACgkQqk07qZdiYjckQQCfVFuFdufp+ZF+9Fk0KobSyvMs /HUAn27X8ck7ynE2VRYmRVy34DxCBEMK =9bYd -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- ------------------------------ Message: 2 Date: Wed, 20 May 2009 09:19:39 +0200 From: "Gavin Fleming" <[hidden email]> Subject: RE: [OSGeo Africa] Examples of localised GIS? To: <[hidden email]>, "Africa local chapter discussions" <[hidden email]> Message-ID: <[hidden email]> Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" 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 -----Original Message----- From: [hidden email] [mailto:[hidden email]] On Behalf Of Tim Sutton Sent: 20 May 2009 01:08 AM To: [hidden email]; Africa local chapter discussions Subject: Re: [OSGeo Africa] Examples of localised GIS? -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 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 ============================================== -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.9 (GNU/Linux) Comment: Using GnuPG with Mozilla - http://enigmail.mozdev.org iEYEARECAAYFAkoTO7cACgkQqk07qZdiYjckQQCfVFuFdufp+ZF+9Fk0KobSyvMs /HUAn27X8ck7ynE2VRYmRVy34DxCBEMK =9bYd -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- _______________________________________________ Africa mailing list [hidden email] http://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/africa ------------------------------ _______________________________________________ Africa mailing list [hidden email] http://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/africa End of Africa Digest, Vol 29, Issue 6 ************************************* _______________________________________________ Africa mailing list [hidden email] http://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/africa |
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