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 <james2...@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" <yuriastrak...@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 <james2...@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" <james2...@gmail.com> wrote: > > More like French for the entirety of the province of Quebec > > On Apr 10, 2017 7:38 PM, "Yuri Astrakhan" <yuriastrak...@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) > > _______________________________________________ > talk mailing list > talk@openstreetmap.org > https://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk > >
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