[talk-au] Mapping Indigenous Place Names

[Rory McCann]

You can use Ethnologue to check out the languages in Australia and what 
the language code to use.

https://www.ethnologue.com/country/AU/languages

They also have maps:

https://www.ethnologue.com/sites/default/files/styles/original/public/maps/20/AU___rgb.png
https://www.ethnologue.com/sites/default/files/styles/original/public/maps/20/AU_n_rgb.png

On 26/01/18 13:09, David Dean wrote:
> Hi everyone,
> 
> I've done a little research, and added the following section to the 
> Australian Tagging Guidelines at 
> https://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Australian_Tagging_Guidelines#Places, and 
> the Multilingual names page at 
> https://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Multilingual_names:
> 
> Please use the name:aus (aus is the general ISO639-2 code for Australian 
> Aboriginal Languages) to indicate the indigenous names of places. It 
> would be useful to do this even when the generally used name is 
> indigenous, to allow for a potential indigenous rendering of our maps.
> 
> I hope we can all agree that this is an excellent idea, and starting 
> adding these everywhere we can. Here's my first go: 
> https://www.openstreetmap.org/changeset/55769062.
> 
> So far we currently have about 4 name:aus tags in the whole country (see 
> https://overpass-turbo.eu/s/voW). We can do better that that!
> 
> - David
> 
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> http://dbdean.com
> 
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