[Tagging] Identifying language regions

[Yuri Astrakhan]

Vao, I think OSM is perfect for this specifically because you need local
knowledge like what you describe to create it :)   It would not be possible
to create it as accurately without that on-the-ground info.  Of course we
can also expand the actual tags based on such feedback.

On Wed, Apr 18, 2018 at 10:49 PM, Vao Matua <vaomatua at gmail.com> wrote:

> I would suggest that OSM is probably not the best place for this.  There
> are many countries that have many or even hundreds of languages.  The lines
> between the places where languages are commonly spoken can be quite fuzzy
> and often do not follow any other features. A year ago I was living in a
> place where people living there spoke 3 different languages in addition to
> the "official" language.
>
> On Wed, Apr 18, 2018 at 12:41 PM, Yuri Astrakhan <yuriastrakhan at gmail.com>
> wrote:
>
>> What would be the best tags to use for mapping language regions?  I would
>> like to create a map of primary languages spoken in an area. This will
>> greatly help with multilingual maps, allowing data consumers to calculate
>> which language name tags to use for which locale. This will also give OSM
>> community a much greater control over such maps.
>>
>> Proposal (relations only, must have closed polygons):
>> type=language
>> primary=xx   (required)
>> secondary=yy;zz;...  (optional)
>>
>> A relation may span multiple countries (e.g. US and most of Canada for
>> English), or split countries (e.g. EN and FR regions in Canada). In some
>> cases, the relation will reuse country border ways.
>>
>> What do you think?
>>
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