Oops! OHM was supposed to be a map of history, but linguists turned us into an accidental map of the history of writing. Minh introduces @unicode.org to our efforts with @maplibre.org to bring #HGIS to more language traditions all over the world:
youtu.be/xoqwUHvYsrs
w.wiki/JC25
#UTW2025 #i18n
Oops! #OpenHistoricalMap was supposed to be a map of history, but then the linguists found us and turned us into an accidental map of the history of writing. @mxn shows how we and @maplibre are bringing #HGIS to more language traditions all over the world:
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A laptop showing OpenHistoricalMap showing Spain in 1925, held up in front of a sign with the Unicode logo, followed by: time zone conversion, alphabetical sorting, metric versus imperial, scientific notation. Bidirectional text (spelled backwards). Currency exchange, calendar formats, emoji searchability.
It was a privilege to introduce the software #internationalization and #localization community to #OpenHistoricalMap (and #OpenStreetMap and @maplibre.org) at #UTW2025. Join us in mapping yesterday already!
#i18n #l10n
A laptop showing OpenHistoricalMap showing Spain in 1925, held up in front of a sign with the Unicode logo, followed by: time zone conversion, alphabetical sorting, metric versus imperial, scientific notation. Bidirectional text (spelled backwards). Currency exchange, calendar formats, emoji searchability.
It was a privilege to introduce the software #internationalization and #localization community to #OpenHistoricalMap (and #OpenStreetMap and @maplibre) at #UTW2025. Join us in mapping yesterday already!
#i18n #l10n
