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Translation of labels in OpenMapKit #84

Open mikelmaron opened 8 years ago

mikelmaron commented 8 years ago

ODK Collect allows translation of labels as an additional column in XLSForms. The same would be good in OpenMapKit.

mberg commented 8 years ago

Mikel,

Could you propose how this would look specifically in the XLSForm?

I thought we might have already covered this.

Matt

On Wed, Sep 2, 2015 at 2:35 PM, Mikel Maron notifications@github.com wrote:

ODK Collect allows translation of labels as an additional column in XLSForms. The same would be good in OpenMapKit.

— Reply to this email directly or view it on GitHub https://github.com/AmericanRedCross/OpenMapKit/issues/84.

hallahan commented 8 years ago

There isn't explicit "translation" functionality like you find in ODK, however, when authoring a form, you can set the label to be in any language you wish. Then, have it correspond with the actual OSM tag key or value, which is always going to be English.

This does mean that you need to author a specific form for a specific language. Creating translation functionality like we find in ODK questions would require modification to the overall schema, across the board, in pyxform, JavaRosa in ODK Collect, ODK Collect, as well as OpenMapKit.