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Mapzen has a lot of good features with simple, user friendly and beautiful interface, but it doesn't support writing names in Arabic, and it displays it in wrong letters order and the letters are disconnected!
I really can not contribute using such editor...
All of that because of the flash player in Linux, it doesn't support Arabic. In Potlatch we have the same problem, but only in the display, but we are able to write in Arabic.
That prevent me till now from translating Potlatch to Arabic, it's very difficult to use it in this way, although the website is near fully translated to Arabic.
I hope one day we will see an OSM editor based on javascript. It will solves most of our problems, and I think it will make our life easy!
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تعليق من TomH في 30 ديسمبر 2009 في 00:15
There's not much point complaining about MapZen here - it's not something created by the OpenStreetMap project. It's created by a commercial company, CloudMade, so if you have a problem with it you need to talk to them.
تعليق من Skippern في 30 ديسمبر 2009 في 00:35
JOSM is a Java based editor you can run on your own computer, or via the webstart applet (dunno the link), if JavaScript might solve your problem, than Java will for sure.
And for a side note, MapZen are not even in Beta mode yet, only an early alfa version, if you find the right place to mention your problem, than the developer team will see it and put it on their TODO. I toyed with it myself for a short hour, though did not save, and it smells of alfa-release, but I guess it looks promising. One thing I did not like was its merkaartor way of handling ways and nodes, I prefare JOSM above Potlatch above merkaartor on their way of handling ways and nodes.
تعليق من Hjart في 30 ديسمبر 2009 في 08:27
Try going to http://josm.openstreetmap.de/. It looks like JOSM is partly translated to Arabic allready.
تعليق من matata في 30 ديسمبر 2009 في 10:51
For me I use JOSM most of the time, but I'm talking about the new comers who don't have a previous experience in map editing, and they are not good in English. they will find a lot of difficulties in using JOSM because it's for advanced mappers, and difficulties with web editors because it doesn't supports Arabic!!!
تعليق من Richard في 30 ديسمبر 2009 في 17:40
Potlatch supports Arabic, or any other, fonts if you have them installed on your system in a location where Flash Player can find them.
I suggest you look at http://www.justskins.com/forums/fonts-in-flashplayer-for-linux-1652.html .
تعليق من Skippern في 31 ديسمبر 2009 في 00:14
Maybe merkaartor should be pushed more? I guess that one is somewhat more "newbie"-friendly than JOSM, though I do not like the entire Look-and-Feel of it. AFAIK all the tools for OSM supports i18n, whether it is in translating menues and help information or different font types. AFAIK it also supports r2l.
If you don't know these terms, i18n is internationalization (translation) and r2l is right-to-left fonts.
تعليق من robert في 31 ديسمبر 2009 في 14:48
Skippern: I more often see it written rtl.