[OSM-talk] Looking for "primary language" map

[Yuri Astrakhan]

Exactly, and that's the map I need -- a set of shapes that define these
region mapping: Quebec+New Brunswick => fr, the rest of USA/Canada => en,
...
The shapes may overlap because that would make geojson smaller - I will
simply use the first one.

Having this map will allow me to determine the likely language of the
"name" tag for any location, which in turn make for a better multilingual
map.

On Mon, Apr 10, 2017 at 8:20 PM James <james2432 at gmail.com> wrote:

> Well many countries have multiple official languages, Canada is French and
> English, but in practice is mostly Quebec and New brunswick...with small
> patches of french throughout the rest
>
> On Apr 10, 2017 8:12 PM, "Yuri Astrakhan" <yuriastrakhan at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> James, thanks, but I was hoping for the language regions shapefile, e.g.
> in the GeoJSON form.  The list of official languages will require a lot of
> work to convert into the merged shapes, and it still not very good, as many
> countries have several official languages, e.g. Switzerland.
>
> On Mon, Apr 10, 2017 at 7:55 PM James <james2432 at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> Also have you checked:
> https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_official_languages_by_country_and_territory
>
> On Apr 10, 2017 7:50 PM, "James" <james2432 at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> More like French for the entirety of the province of Quebec
>
> On Apr 10, 2017 7:38 PM, "Yuri Astrakhan" <yuriastrakhan at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> Does anyone know of an open source language map - basically a set of
> geoshapes with the corresponding language code?  Country boundaries are not
> needed - e.g. Canada and USA would be English with the exception of French
> for Montreal area.
>
> This is needed to guesstimate what language the "name" tag is in.
>
> Does not have to be very precise (10-20 MB is more than enough)
>
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