I simply need to determine the most likely language of the "name" tag (not the "name:xx" tag). Does not have to be 100% correct - even 80% is great.
On Mon, Apr 10, 2017 at 8:59 PM john whelan <jwhelan0...@gmail.com> wrote: Orleans is part of Ottawa and all street names signs are bilingual or in the process of being replaced by bilingual ones. Certainly the street I live on in Orleans has a bilingual street name sign. The English French question is very much political in Canada and I suspect much of the world. Montreal has a quite large English speaking community which is rare in Quebec. You could try looking at the street names to see if they are in English and have a second language name as well. name:fr for example. Cheerio John On 10 April 2017 at 20:47, James <james2...@gmail.com> wrote: Well it might not be as simple as you say...take for instance Ottawa. It's in Ontario and pretty english. There is a suburb called Orléans in which is pretty much "the french part of town" as most street signs will be in french, but rest of Ottawa is pretty English(in terms of street signs) So generilizing wont help you much... On Apr 10, 2017 8:27 PM, "Yuri Astrakhan" <yuriastrak...@gmail.com> wrote: Exactly, and that's the map I need -- a set of shapes that define these region mapping: Quebec+New Brunswick => fr, the rest of USA/Canada => en, ... The shapes may overlap because that would make geojson smaller - I will simply use the first one. Having this map will allow me to determine the likely language of the "name" tag for any location, which in turn make for a better multilingual map. On Mon, Apr 10, 2017 at 8:20 PM James <james2...@gmail.com> wrote: Well many countries have multiple official languages, Canada is French and English, but in practice is mostly Quebec and New brunswick...with small patches of french throughout the rest On Apr 10, 2017 8:12 PM, "Yuri Astrakhan" <yuriastrak...@gmail.com> wrote: James, thanks, but I was hoping for the language regions shapefile, e.g. in the GeoJSON form. The list of official languages will require a lot of work to convert into the merged shapes, and it still not very good, as many countries have several official languages, e.g. Switzerland. On Mon, Apr 10, 2017 at 7:55 PM James <james2...@gmail.com> wrote: Also have you checked: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_official_languages_by_country_and_territory On Apr 10, 2017 7:50 PM, "James" <james2...@gmail.com> wrote: More like French for the entirety of the province of Quebec On Apr 10, 2017 7:38 PM, "Yuri Astrakhan" <yuriastrak...@gmail.com> wrote: Does anyone know of an open source language map - basically a set of geoshapes with the corresponding language code? Country boundaries are not needed - e.g. Canada and USA would be English with the exception of French for Montreal area. This is needed to guesstimate what language the "name" tag is in. Does not have to be very precise (10-20 MB is more than enough) _______________________________________________ talk mailing list talk@openstreetmap.org https://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk _______________________________________________ talk mailing list talk@openstreetmap.org https://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk
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