[Tagging] Identifying language regions
Martin Koppenhoefer
dieterdreist at gmail.com
Wed Apr 18 21:04:35 UTC 2018
2018-04-18 22:40 GMT+02:00 Yuri Astrakhan <yuriastrakhan at gmail.com>:
> 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.
>
I agree that a map is not the worst medium to store which language is
spoken where. Fuzzy regions are a problem, the concept should have
provisions how to deal with this (i.e. find a way to store "fuzzy borders",
this is not just about tags, it is similar to geographic regions). Good
luck.
Cheers,
Martin
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