Translating:OpenStreetMap

OpenStreetMap (homepage) is a free editable map of the whole world. It is made by people like you (released under the Open Database License - ODbL).

It is possible to translate the OpenStreetMap website and the Potlatch 2 editor at translatewiki.net. User Siebrand coordinates the localisation.

OSM.org:

Code repository: https://github.com/openstreetmap/openstreetmap-website/
Contact: TomH or Gravitystorm
Issue tracker: https://github.com/openstreetmap/openstreetmap-website/issues

Potlatch 3:

Further reading on Potlatch 3
Code repository: https://github.com/systemed/potlatch3
Contact: Richard Fairhurst
Issue tracker: https://github.com/systemed/potlatch3/issues
Note: Development of Potlatch 2 ended in December 2020. Its successor Potlatch 3 still uses the translations added prior to this date but new translations have not been added yet.

Waymarked trails: see Translating:Waymarked Trails.

The JOSM editor startup page can be translated on its website, and the editor itself in Launchpad.

Translators may add "OSM" to their babel box or include {{User OSM}} to add themselves to Category:OpenStreetMap translators.

Reporting issues

Issues for official OpenStreetMap projects can be reported in the corresponding GitHub repository, select the project then the Issues page. Some related projects employ their own issue tracking.

Issues for the most prominent projects are:

Website: https://github.com/openstreetmap/openstreetmap-website/issues
iD - friendly JavaScript editor: https://github.com/openstreetmap/iD/issues
JOSM - desktop editor: https://josm.openstreetmap.de

See also the OSM wiki pages Contact Channels and Bugs.

Translation notes

OSM uses rails-i18n, based on CLDR data, to generate plural forms. The plural software keys for each language on rails-i18n, are here. See Unicode CLDR page for an explanation of the plural keys for translators. Advice on writing plural syntax for CLDR data is given here.

OpenStreetMap website

Software help, including a glossary of terms, is available on the OpenStreetMap Wiki.

Updates

The OSM website is updated every few weeks, as far as we know. More parts of OpenStreetMap may be added later; for now, see the OpenStreetMap Wiki for details.

Map data

Note that the actual map data must be translated using an OpenStreetMap editor, such as iD or JOSM (details and instructions).

Website translation into Spanish

This is the guidelines to translate into Spanish: Portal talk:Es#OpenStreetMap en español

Exports

Languages with translation completion less than 25% are not committed to version control. If the project consists of multiple message groups, the limit is applied to each group separately.

Translation updates are exported to version control every Monday and Thursday.

Activity

Translation statistics

The numbers shown below are cached and may not show the latest status. See this stats page for always up-to-date statistics.

Message group for all OpenStreetMap messages

Language	Messages	Untranslated	Completion	Reviewed	Outdated
ab: Abkhazian	2,610	2,538	2%	0%	1%
af: Afrikaans	2,611	1,129	56%	21%	3%
aln: Gheg Albanian	2,609	1,890	27%	0%	4%
ar: Arabic	2,617	618	76%	94%	0%
arz: Egyptian Arabic	2,610	1,892	27%	30%	0%
as: Assamese	2,609	2,449	6%	0%	1%
ast: Asturian	2,613	1,093	58%	5%	4%
az: Azerbaijani	2,611	1,825	30%	3%	2%
azb: South Azerbaijani	2,611	2,376	9%	0%	1%
ba: Bashkir	2,611	1,341	48%	15%	1%
bar: Bavarian	2,609	2,522	3%	0%	0%
be: Belarusian	2,624	561	78%	10%	2%
be-tarask: Belarusian (Taraškievica orthography)	2,610	1,612	38%	0%	1%
bg: Bulgarian	2,612	1,028	60%	48%	1%
blk: Pa'O	2,611	2,251	13%	9%	1%
bn: Bangla	2,617	1,035	60%	17%	1%
br: Breton	2,620	218	91%	0%	1%
bs: Bosnian	2,611	1,547	40%	43%	4%
ca: Catalan	2,619	390	85%	30%	2%
ce: Chechen	2,611	295	88%	0%	2%
ckb: Central Kurdish	2,611	2,447	6%	0%	1%
cs: Czech	2,632	103	96%	33%	1%
cy: Welsh	2,617	149	94%	14%	1%
da: Danish	2,621	30	98%	19%	1%
dag: Dagbani	2,609	2,540	2%	4%	1%
de: German	2,627	58	97%	39%	1%
diq: Dimli	2,610	1,772	32%	0%	1%
dsb: Lower Sorbian	2,610	1,549	40%	0%	6%
dv: Divehi	2,610	2,462	5%	0%	2%
el: Greek	2,620	17	99%	61%	0%
en: English	2,696	1	99%	0%	1%
en-gb: British English	2,611	1,189	54%	88%	1%
eo: Esperanto	2,627	17	99%	8%	0%
es: Spanish	2,637	68	97%	89%	1%
et: Estonian	2,615	243	90%	5%	0%
eu: Basque	2,617	525	79%	97%	3%
fa: Persian	2,620	695	73%	70%	3%
fi: Finnish	2,620	195	92%	12%	1%
fit: Tornedalen Finnish	2,611	2,078	20%	0%	3%
fo: Faroese	2,610	2,481	4%	0%	2%
fr: French	2,654	2	99%	58%	1%
frc: Cajun French	2,610	2,426	7%	0%	1%
fur: Friulian	2,612	1,350	48%	0%	2%
fy: Western Frisian	2,612	750	71%	12%	4%
ga: Irish	2,611	1,306	49%	3%	3%
gcf: Guadeloupean Creole	2,609	2,153	17%	5%	1%
gd: Scottish Gaelic	2,611	1,273	51%	0%	4%
gl: Galician	2,625	0	100%	26%	0%
gn: Guarani	2,609	2,514	3%	0%	1%
gsw: Alemannic	2,610	2,449	6%	0%	1%
gu: Gujarati	2,611	2,015	22%	0%	1%
he: Hebrew	2,621	76	97%	32%	1%
hi: Hindi	2,611	1,866	28%	4%	2%
hr: Croatian	2,611	1,387	46%	17%	4%
hsb: Upper Sorbian	2,615	583	77%	3%	0%
ht: Haitian Creole	2,610	2,531	3%	0%	1%
hu: Hungarian	2,620	93	96%	28%	1%
hy: Armenian	2,609	2,303	11%	0%	1%
hyw: Western Armenian	2,609	2,479	4%	0%	1%
ia: Interlingua	2,619	247	90%	16%	0%
id: Indonesian	2,617	358	86%	21%	1%
io: Ido	2,612	2,310	11%	0%	1%
is: Icelandic	2,683	336	87%	10%	2%
it: Italian	2,621	10	99%	23%	0%
ja: Japanese	2,617	303	88%	42%	1%
ka: Georgian	2,610	1,882	27%	0%	4%
kab: Kabyle	2,610	1,757	32%	0%	4%
kjp: Eastern Pwo	2,610	2,458	5%	0%	1%
kk-cyrl: Kazakh (Cyrillic script)	2,610	1,666	36%	0%	1%
km: Khmer	2,609	2,057	21%	0%	2%
kn: Kannada	2,612	2,006	23%	14%	2%
ko: Korean	2,619	183	93%	14%	0%
ksh: Colognian	2,609	2,379	8%	0%	2%
ku-latn: Kurdish (Latin script)	2,612	632	75%	16%	1%
ky: Kyrgyz	2,610	2,292	12%	0%	2%
lb: Luxembourgish	2,613	537	79%	3%	1%
lld: Ladin	2,609	2,482	4%	0%	1%
ln: Lingala	2,613	2,555	2%	0%	1%
lrc: Northern Luri	2,611	2,542	2%	0%	1%
lt: Lithuanian	2,614	393	84%	16%	2%
lv: Latvian	2,614	1,101	57%	38%	5%
mag: Magahi	2,609	2,478	5%	0%	0%
mai: Maithili	2,610	2,531	3%	0%	1%
mg: Malagasy	2,610	2,323	10%	3%	3%
mk: Macedonian	2,628	0	100%	28%	0%
ml: Malayalam	2,611	2,260	13%	34%	1%
mni: Manipuri	2,611	2,502	4%	0%	1%
mnw: Mon	2,610	2,510	3%	0%	1%
mo: Moldovan	2,609	2,181	16%	1%	2%
mr: Marathi	2,610	1,699	34%	48%	4%
mrh: Mara	2,610	2,497	4%	67%	1%
ms: Malay	2,613	1,126	56%	0%	5%
ms-arab: Malay (Jawi script)	2,610	2,489	4%	0%	0%
my: Burmese	2,610	2,113	19%	16%	2%
myv: Erzya	2,609	2,308	11%	6%	1%
nah: Nahuatl	2,609	2,546	2%	0%	1%
nap: Neapolitan	2,610	2,448	6%	0%	1%
nb: Norwegian Bokmål	2,612	843	67%	26%	2%
nds: Low German	2,610	2,227	14%	0%	2%
ne: Nepali	2,618	1,494	42%	6%	1%
nl: Dutch	2,624	114	95%	23%	1%
nn: Norwegian Nynorsk	2,616	809	69%	0%	3%
nqo: N’Ko	2,615	1,343	48%	0%	2%
oc: Occitan	2,617	816	68%	24%	3%
ojb: Northwestern Ojibwa	2,610	2,211	15%	0%	1%
or: Odia	2,609	2,547	2%	0%	1%
pa: Punjabi	2,611	832	68%	27%	1%
pl: Polish	2,687	59	97%	43%	1%
pnb: Western Punjabi	2,624	1,169	55%	0%	3%
ps: Pashto	2,611	2,301	11%	0%	2%
pt: Portuguese	2,622	1	99%	39%	0%
pt-br: Brazilian Portuguese	2,627	2	99%	89%	1%
qqq: Message documentation	2,696	445	83%	0%	0%
rm: Romansh	2,610	2,499	4%	0%	1%
ro: Romanian	2,616	344	86%	46%	2%
ru: Russian	2,623	269	89%	39%	1%
rue: Rusyn	2,609	2,499	4%	0%	1%
rup: Aromanian	2,610	2,372	9%	0%	1%
sah: Yakut	2,609	2,531	2%	1%	1%
sat: Santali	2,610	2,158	17%	8%	2%
sc: Sardinian	2,617	459	82%	11%	2%
scn: Sicilian	2,612	1,246	52%	2%	4%
sco: Scots	2,610	1,953	25%	0%	4%
sdh: Southern Kurdish	2,610	2,546	2%	0%	0%
se: Northern Sami	2,609	2,507	3%	0%	1%
sh-latn: Serbo-Croatian (Latin script)	2,610	2,095	19%	0%	1%
shn: Shan	2,609	2,261	13%	37%	0%
si: Sinhala	2,609	2,471	5%	47%	0%
sje: Pite Sami	2,610	2,411	7%	0%	1%
sk: Slovak	2,619	16	99%	3%	0%
skr-arab: Saraiki (Arabic script)	2,617	1,477	43%	0%	1%
sl: Slovenian	2,623	381	85%	5%	2%
smn: Inari Sami	2,609	2,474	5%	10%	1%
sms: Skolt Sami	2,609	2,289	12%	0%	1%
so: Somali	2,610	2,365	9%	0%	2%
sq: Albanian	2,612	1,691	35%	16%	2%
sr-ec: Serbian (Cyrillic script)	2,618	663	74%	21%	0%
sr-el: Serbian (Latin script)	2,616	1,780	31%	0%	5%
sro: Campidanese Sardinian	2,609	2,514	3%	34%	1%
sv: Swedish	2,617	85	96%	65%	1%
sw: Swahili	2,609	2,503	4%	0%	1%
ta: Tamil	2,609	2,034	22%	1%	3%
tcy: Tulu	2,612	2,354	9%	0%	1%
te: Telugu	2,612	809	69%	6%	4%
tg-cyrl: Tajik (Cyrillic script)	2,609	2,457	5%	0%	1%
th: Thai	2,611	769	70%	3%	2%
tk: Turkmen	2,609	2,259	13%	0%	1%
tl: Tagalog	2,611	1,139	56%	11%	5%
tly: Talysh	2,609	2,500	4%	0%	1%
tok: Toki Pona	2,610	2,335	10%	1%	1%
tr: Turkish	2,623	52	98%	42%	1%
tt-cyrl: Tatar (Cyrillic script)	2,611	1,950	25%	1%	1%
tzm: Central Atlas Tamazight	2,609	2,523	3%	0%	1%
ug-arab: Uyghur (Arabic script)	2,611	2,466	5%	0%	1%
uk: Ukrainian	2,627	2	99%	63%	1%
ur: Urdu	2,613	2,330	10%	1%	2%
uz: Uzbek	2,609	2,507	3%	0%	1%
vec: Venetian	2,610	2,361	9%	0%	2%
vi: Vietnamese	2,624	147	94%	0%	0%
wuu-hans: Wu (Simplified Han script)	2,611	2,472	5%	0%	1%
xmf: Mingrelian	2,614	1,756	32%	0%	2%
yi: Yiddish	2,611	2,520	3%	0%	1%
yue-hant: Cantonese (Traditional Han script)	2,610	2,432	6%	0%	1%
zgh: Standard Moroccan Tamazight	2,611	2,352	9%	4%	2%
zh-hans: Simplified Chinese	2,623	27	98%	37%	0%
zh-hant: Traditional Chinese	2,631	2	99%	10%	1%
zh-hk: Chinese (Hong Kong)	2,610	1,672	35%	1%	2%
All 167 languages together	436,810	249,581	42%	23%	1%

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