On 04/10/2017 07:35 PM, Yuri Astrakhan 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)
Have you considered using wikidata for this? For example,
https://www.openstreetmap.org/relation/61549 (Québec) has the tag
wikidata=Q176, and https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q176 has an entry
"official language".
I'd expect that the OSM-Wikidata mapping is good enough on the level of
countries/large regions to make this work; if not, it's a good
opportunity to improve it.
--Andrew
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