[OSM-talk] Nominatim and language tags

[Peter Wendorff]

Hi Brian.

I would simply pull these information from Wikipedia, where the 
Country-Template includes the official language. Therefore it should be 
straight forward to fetch them - automatically or manually.

Nevertheless the question is: What about countries with more than one 
official language?

regards
Peter

Am 17.02.2012 14:16, schrieb Brian Quinion:
> Hi,
>
> We are doing some work to improve the linking of name and name:xx tags
> in nominatim (basically adding better language fall backs) but in
> order to do that we need to have a list of which OFFICIAL languages
> are used in which countries.
>
> Since we've been unable to find such a resource I've started building
> one.  You can find my first pass on the wiki here:
>
> http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Nominatim/Country_Codes
>
> but as you will see it is missing codes for a lot of the countries.
>
> So, rather than me spending the next few days of my life researching,
> and probably getting a lot of them wrong, could anyone who knows the
> official languages for a missing country go and fill them in?  It
> would be much appreciated and will help to improve the presentation of
> nominatim search results!
>
> Official languages only (i.e. ones that are used on signs in that
> country), not languages that are simply spoken in that country.
>
> Cheers,
> --
>   Brian
>
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