[Talk-ca] Canadian Arctic Island Naming Languages

[James Parker Badger]

Hello,

I am working at the University of Calgary on a project that is using OpenStreetMap data to provide a mapping service for Arctic researchers. We chose to use OpenStreetMap as we would like to encourage communities to contribute and share their local mapping data.

One of the partners on our project is the Arctic Institute of North America (http://arctic.ucalgary.ca/), and one of their members asked me about the naming of islands in the Canadian Arctic: is there a reason some islands are named in French and others in English? The Arctic Institute generally uses the English names (or names in the indigenous languages).

Sincerely,

James
--
James Badger E.I.T.
Research Associate
GeoSensorWeb Lab
Department of Geomatics Engineering
Schulich School of Engineering
University of Calgary
2500 University Drive NW
Calgary, Alberta T2N 1N4
http://sensorweb.geomatics.ucalgary.ca

-------------- next part --------------
An HTML attachment was scrubbed...
URL: <http://lists.openstreetmap.org/pipermail/talk-ca/attachments/20150706/b627c457/attachment.html>