| 13:13:08 | pimpaa: | hello!!! |
| 15:50:16 | darkblue_B: | pimpaa: |
| 15:50:19 | darkblue_B: | ?? |
| 16:48:05 | simgislab: | hi all, I don't if this is of any interest, but we've just finished translating/publishing on the web current version of PostGIS manual in Russian, which was warmly welcomed by the community. |
| 17:00:59 | darkblue_B: | is that the 1.4 docs? |
| 17:02:46 | simgislab: | decided to wait until 1.3 is out |
| 17:03:48 | darkblue_B: | all the russians I have worked with speak prety good english.. but then, I suppose there is a selection process there, since I am in California |
| 17:03:49 | simgislab: | err 1.4 |
| 17:04:36 | darkblue_B: | I suppose UTF-8 has simplified the situation |
| 17:05:02 | darkblue_B: | though russians have a few legacy character sets they deal with |
| 17:05:10 | simgislab: | well, as anywhere, techs have to learn english, but there are quite many who don't know it |
| 17:05:19 | darkblue_B: | .. I mean for the data, not for the manual |
| 17:05:29 | darkblue_B: | yes |
| 17:06:05 | darkblue_B: | what kind of local web search kind of things are there in Russia now? |
| 17:06:06 | simgislab: | yeah, though cp1251 is still widely used, major pain actually, this encoding switches |
| 17:06:24 | darkblue_B: | yes - I have done that character encoding work |
| 17:06:30 | simgislab: | local web search? you mean google alternatives? |
| 17:07:00 | darkblue_B: | well, can I look for gas stations on some well known web site |
| 17:07:19 | darkblue_B: | .. local business, parks, whatever |
| 17:07:31 | simgislab: | or locationwise you mean |
| 17:07:41 | darkblue_B: | yes, location aware search |
| 17:08:00 | darkblue_B: | we have many in the US.. its just that the Google name is widely known |
| 17:08:45 | simgislab: | maps.yandex.ru is not bad |
| 17:09:46 | simgislab: | they are much better in local search in general than google and trying to catch up with other services, mail, maps etc... |
| 17:09:56 | darkblue_B: | looking.. |
| 17:18:23 | darkblue_B: | traffic |
| 17:20:19 | darkblue_B: | hmm well my browser is confused so I can only do so much.. but it looks like they are very much on track with current tech here |
| 17:21:00 | darkblue_B: | slippy map with Javascript.. local search.. satellite and map views.. traffic and routing |
| 17:21:32 | darkblue_B: | somebody is puting a lot of work in to that |
| 17:23:03 | simgislab: | yep, they have some nice features, like collecting traffic information realtime, sort of like traffic crowdsourcing |
| 17:23:53 | darkblue_B: | not a lot of detail in some places.. but I'm impressed |
| 17:24:00 | simgislab: | and 5m satellite country-wide, which is a killer considering size of the country, though they are not there yet |
| 17:27:05 | darkblue_B: | do you know about OpenStreetMap in Russia? |
| 17:28:49 | darkblue_B: | I'm seeing a lot of detail in St Petersburg in OpenStreetMap.. |
| 17:31:44 | simgislab: | Moscow too, people are quite involved, though no big mapping parties yet : ) |
| 17:33:25 | simgislab: | need to change that, better docs would help, recently wrote a description on how to get started |
| 17:33:40 | darkblue_B: | yes.. very good |
| 17:33:54 | darkblue_B: | I was at the Dev Day at CloudMade the other day |
| 17:34:52 | darkblue_B: | the tools are getting very good.. potlatch is good enough for a lot of things |