OpenStreetMap

openstreetmap.hu

Posted by balrog-kun on 7 July 2009 in English.

When I acquired openstreetmap.pl I noticed lots of other ccTLDs were already taken so I thought I'd get as many as I can before some domain troll gets them because I had problems with those before. I only got .pl and .hu, most other domains were either really expensive, required a passport number of the country or something else (.hu required sending some documents in Hungarian by snail mail but I could do that). So I've set up a very simple Polish page on opesntreetmap.pl that does nothing fancy but has the initial view set on Poland and localised links, and then redirected .hu to the same page only adding javascript for changing the initial location on the page to point at Hungary.

So, if anyone has ideas for a better use for the .hu domain or can at least translate the copyright notice and the "edit" and "forums" links to hungarian then I can host a localised page on the same computer or we can figure out something else.

(posted from the Gran Canaria Desktop Summit where there was going to be a mapping party but it doesn't seem like enough people know about it and on Thursday when it was originally planned some people will already be taking off to the State Of The Map, so once again it seems like I'll never have an occasion to attend a real mapping party)

Discussion

Comment from Wynndale on 8 July 2009 at 17:13

Don’t forget you can

Comment from balrog-kun on 9 July 2009 at 03:03

I don't speak Hungarian, but if someone translates the main website then I can pick the strings from there. openstreetmap.hu only has about 3 translatable strings so it would be a quicky :-)

Comment from StefanB on 9 July 2009 at 07:10

how about having it as an alias for main website, defaulting to their language (once it is translated)?

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