At this stage in its development, iD is using an extremely minimal, simple system for translations. This directory contains languages according to code (de: German, fr: French, etc).

To contribute:

If you're technically-minded, clone this repository and edit the necessary file, and you can preview your changes in-place if your system language is set. Check out the contributing guide for submitting changes.

If you aren't, you can still contribute! You'll still need a GitHub account, but you can just browse to your language's file here, click 'Edit', and edit each translated string.

Translating Strings

Let's look at an example line from en.js:

no_results: "Couldn't locate a place named '{name}'"

The word in brackets, {name}, should not be translated into a new language: it's replaced with a place name when iD presents the text. So a French translation would look like

no_results: "Impossible de localiser l'endroit nommé '{name}'"

License

Contributions to translations are under the same liberal license as iD itself, wtfpl.