[Marble-devel] language of maps for Marble on the N900

[Dennis Nienhüser]

Hi Julien,

indeed, it was just a tar archive, so tar xf will unpack it.
I corrected the one on my server though, should work now if you download 
it again.

Regards,
Dennis

Am 03.05.2012 23:57, schrieb Julien Tailleur:
> Hi Denis,
>
> the image looks great but there seems to be some problem with the 
> tarball:
>
> julien at banana:~$ tar xvfz openstreetmap-i18n.tar.bz2
>
> gzip: stdin: not in gzip format
> tar: Child returned status 1
> tar: Error is not recoverable: exiting now
> julien at banana:~$ bunzip2 openstreetmap-i18n.tar.bz2
> bunzip2: openstreetmap-i18n.tar.bz2 is not a bzip2 file.
>
> Thanks for the hard work anyway !
>
> cheers
>
> Julien
>
> On Thu, 3 May 2012, Dennis Nienh�ser wrote:
>
>> Date: Thu, 3 May 2012 18:49:09 +0200
>> From: "[ISO-8859-1] Dennis Nienh�ser" <earthwings at gentoo.org>
>> To: marble-devel at kde.org
>> Cc: Julien Tailleur <julien.tailleur at espci.fr>
>> Subject: Re: [Marble-devel] language of maps for Marble on the N900
>>
>> Hi Julien,
>>
>> great you like Marble :-)
>> The language of the user interface is automatically detected on the 
>> N900 according to the system settings of the N900. The OpenStreetMap 
>> theme is rendered in the local language of each region.
>> Internationalization is coming to OSM though [1] and you can use it 
>> in Marble as well: I just made a map theme that uses the experimental 
>> i18n rendering toolserver. You can download it from [2], see [3] for 
>> a preview (classic rendering left, localized to english on the 
>> right). The theme lets you switch between English, German, French and 
>> Spanish. Usually English gives the "best" results as other languages 
>> are often missing and then the original one is used.
>>
>> To use the map theme in Linux:
>>
>> $ cd ~/.local/share/marble
>> $ wget http://nienhueser.de/marble/openstreetmap-i18n.tar.bz2
>> $ tar xjf openstreetmap-i18n.tar.bz2
>>
>> To use the map theme in the N900 (mounted via USB to /media/N900):
>>
>> $ cd /media/N900/.local/share/marble
>> $ wget http://nienhueser.de/marble/openstreetmap-i18n.tar.bz2
>> $ tar xjf openstreetmap-i18n.tar.bz2
>>
>> Unmount the N900, then open Marble. You should get a new theme named 
>> "OpenStreetMap (english)" which you can choose. Open the Legend and 
>> select a different language if you want something different than 
>> english.
>>
>> Regards,
>> Dennis
>>
>> [1] http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Map_Internationalization
>> [2] http://nienhueser.de/marble/openstreetmap-i18n.tar.bz2
>> [3] http://nienhueser.de/marble/osm-i18n.png
>>
>> Am 03.05.2012 15:24, schrieb Julien Tailleur:
>>> Dear all,
>>>
>>> I've started using Marble for the N900 on Maemo and I'm quite 
>>> impressed, especially with the offline usage! There is one thing 
>>> I've not figured out: it's how to change the language in which names 
>>> are displayed on the maps. I'm currently travelling in Israel for a 
>>> conference and since I don't speak hebrew, it's pretty tough!
>>>
>>> On the user-guide, I've seen that this can be changed in the "View 
>>> Confugration" page (page 26 of the userguide) but I've no clue how 
>>> to find this settings in the n900 which has a much simpler GUI 
>>> interface.
>>>
>>> If you have any clue of how I can fix that, this would be great !
>>>
>>> Thanks a lot for your nice work,
>>>
>>> Julien Tailleur
>>>
>>> ps: please do not forget to add my address in CC when you reply 
>>> since I've not subscribed to the mailing list.
>>>
>>
>>
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