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OpenRailwayMap – wie kommt das Signal auf die Karte? (media.ccc.de)

submitted 5 months ago by Branquinho to c/openstreetmap@lemmy.ml

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

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[–] B0rax@feddit.de 0 points 5 months ago (2 children)

The what?

[–] rglullis@communick.news 3 points 5 months ago (1 children)

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.

[–] B0rax@feddit.de 1 points 5 months ago

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

[–] GregorGizeh@lemmy.zip 1 points 5 months ago (1 children)

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.

[–] rglullis@communick.news 2 points 5 months ago (1 children)

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?

[–] GregorGizeh@lemmy.zip 0 points 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago) (2 children)

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.

[–] rglullis@communick.news 2 points 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago) (1 children)

Might very well be interesting to people regardless of language

Then why bother with language settings at all? If people are just going to set the languages according to what they think might be relevant to the audiences, then the whole idea becomes a silly variant of https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rZ3ETK7-ZM8

[–] GregorGizeh@lemmy.zip 1 points 5 months ago

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

[–] InsertUser@en.osm.town 1 points 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago)

@GregorGizeh @rglullis @openstreetmap
> you could probably turn off the audio and watch it with subtitles.

What subtititles? I can't see a button for this. There doesn't seem to be anything in the menus either.

So this is an "English language" post that is completely inaccessible to people who only speak English.