[OSM-talk] Nominatim and language tags

[Martin Koppenhoefer]

2012/2/17 Peter Wendorff <wendorff at uni-paderborn.de>:
> 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?


What is the "official language"? This is not always unambigous for
every part of the national territory. Even in Germany with few
minorities there are exceptions (e.g. [1] de: "Mittlerweile lautet der
§ 184 des Gerichtsverfassungsgesetzes: „Die Gerichtssprache ist
deutsch. Das Recht der Sorben, in den Heimatkreisen der sorbischen
Bevölkerung vor Gericht sorbisch zu sprechen, ist gewährleistet.“  ->
In areas with a majority of Sorbs [2] they have the right to speak
Sorbian at court).


cheers,
Martin

[1] http://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sorben#Rechtliche_Grundlagen
[2] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sorbs