[Tagging] Identifying language regions

[Rory McCann]

Ireland has 2 official languges (Irish first & then English), but only 
~2% of the population speak Irish daily. There are some legal defined 
regions of Ireland which are supposed to be "Irish speaking areas", but 
even there Irish is a minority language. So how should that be tagged? 
(Some day we'll get around to mapping the Gaeltachtaí)

If you want to know the language in a multi-lingual area, why not look 
at the name, and name:XX tags. If the name value is the same as a name:Z 
then Z is the language.

Compare https://www.openstreetmap.org/node/52245274

name=Crossmolina
name:en=Crossmolina
name:ga=Crois Mhaoilíona

with https://www.openstreetmap.org/node/52218312

name=Béal an Mhuirthead
name:en=Belmullet
name:ga=Béal an Mhuirthead

This could be done on a street level too.

On 18/04/18 21:41, Yuri Astrakhan 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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