[OSM-talk] Nominatim and language tags

Brian Quinion openstreetmap at brian.quinion.co.uk
Fri Feb 17 15:57:05 GMT 2012


On 17 February 2012 14:24, Steve Doerr <doerr.stephen at gmail.com> wrote:
> On 17/02/2012 14:08, Martin Koppenhoefer wrote:
>
>> 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
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> What they're actually looking for is the language which mappers usually use
> for the unqualified name tag: 'Please do not list all languages used in a
> country only the official language that would be used by the "name" tag.'
> (as is says on the wiki page).

Yup, this.  Which means it isn't always quite the same as the standard
list of official languages.

But probably something could be done with wikipedia to pre-populate most of it.

--
 Brian



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