theCrag/website — Issue #355: Climbing dictionary
Author: MelwinQ
Created: 2011-10-23 19:51:43+00:00
State: open

Just an idea for the far far away day when you run out of inspiration:
When climbing abroad, understanding locals or guidebooks is often not easy. Even if you speak the language, because of the climbing lingo most words you won't find in ordinary dictionaries. It would be nice to have a dictionary for the most important climbing terms for the place you go to. It could be an optionaly component for PDF-guides, or someday even enable automatic translations of route descriptions (far fetched, I now).
I found two such lists (selected languages, no advanced functionality) on the web:
http://www-dft.ts.infn.it/~esmargia/mountain/climbing_dict.html
http://www.gdargaud.net/Climbing/Lex_En.html
Perhaps at least one of them could even be convinced to donate the initial stock of words, so the dictionary doesn't need to start from scratch.
As always, thanks for what you have done so far,
Melwin