I have set this value on some of the more obvious cases in N & S Americas. I have also created a wiki page describing the tag. Any help with this is greatly appreciated, especially if you have local knowledge about subregions!
Tag description: https://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Key:default_language P.S. Janko, please take a look at the single vs multiple languages per region in that wiki page. Does that make sense? On Wed, May 2, 2018 at 1:01 PM Janko Mihelić <jan...@gmail.com> wrote: > pon, 30. tra 2018. u 08:28 Yuri Astrakhan <yuriastrak...@gmail.com> > napisao je: > >> >> "official_language" is not a good tag name because it does not match the >> meaning, e.g. the official languages of Canada are both en & fr, but >> "name" >> tag is always in English except for Quebec, where it is in French. >> > > I agree that "official_language" has a much too restrictive meaning. It > will bury us in bureaucracy of "what is actually official". > "default_language" is a bit vague, but maybe a better fit to solve this > problem. > > So just look at a region, see in what language >90% of the labels are, and > add default_language=*. It's not going to be 100% accurate, but infinitely > better then nothing. Than try to get closer to 100% by adding > default_language to subregions, and in the end, individual objects. > > I like that approach. > > Janko >
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