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

Tom Hughes tom at compton.nu
Tue Apr 11 06:08:06 UTC 2017


On 11/04/17 00:35, Yuri Astrakhan 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.

There's some data in CLDR for mapping countries/regions to default 
languages I think, which you could combine with shapes from OSM.

Tom

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