# German translation: Earth, fuer mehr "Namensraumkartographierung"!!

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**Category:** Factual Questions\
**Created:** [March 16, 2012, 8:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/german-translation-earth-fuer-mehr-namensraumkartographierung/616000 "2012-03-16T20:35:50Z")\
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**Author:** ![TriPolar](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/tripolar/32/3008_2.png) [@TriPolar](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/TriPolar)\
**Post date:** [March 16, 2012, 8:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/german-translation-earth-fuer-mehr-namensraumkartographierung/616000/1 "2012-03-16T20:35:50Z")

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Someones tag line. Just curious.

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**Author:** ![hogarth](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/hogarth/32/1773_2.png) [@hogarth](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/hogarth)\
**Post date:** [March 16, 2012, 8:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/german-translation-earth-fuer-mehr-namensraumkartographierung/616000/2 "2012-03-16T20:51:20Z")

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Earth, for more namespace mapping!

Not sure what the significance is supposed to be.

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**Author:** ![Sunspace](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/sunspace/32/1250_2.png) [@Sunspace](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sunspace)\
**Post date:** [March 16, 2012, 8:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/german-translation-earth-fuer-mehr-namensraumkartographierung/616000/3 "2012-03-16T20:51:54Z")

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“Name-space cartography”? Anything to do with DITA or XML? 🙂

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**Author:** ![TriPolar](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/tripolar/32/3008_2.png) [@TriPolar](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/TriPolar)\
**Post date:** [March 16, 2012, 8:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/german-translation-earth-fuer-mehr-namensraumkartographierung/616000/4 "2012-03-16T20:53:01Z")

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> [@Sunspace](#):
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> “Name-space cartography”? Anything to do with DITA or XML? 🙂

XML no doubt. Thanks!

ETA: And thanks to Hogarth as well.