[Talk-ca] weeklyOSM #321 09/06/2016-09/12/2016

2016-09-17 Thread weeklyteam
The weekly round-up of OSM news, issue # 321, is now available online in English, giving as always a summary of all things happening in the openstreetmap world: http://www.weeklyosm.eu/en/archives/8110/ Enjoy! weeklyOSM is brought to you by ...

Re: [Talk-ca] Nunavut place names language

2016-09-17 Thread John Marshall
As someone who does a lot of mapping is in Nunavut. I think it a great idea to add the Native language. That way someone could make a custom map using Native Languages. However, I think we should get some feedback from local mappers and other people who use the data, not someone from Toronto.

Re: [Talk-ca] Nunavut place names language

2016-09-17 Thread James
As john said, the people of nunavut can speak the language, but do they write it or read it? If not English would be the more popular option On Sep 17, 2016 10:10 AM, "John Marshall" wrote: > As someone who does a lot of mapping is in Nunavut. I think it a great > idea to add

Re: [Talk-ca] Nunavut place names language

2016-09-17 Thread Denis Carriere
Also all there is a lot of Canadians from BC, Alberta, Ontario & Quebec that travel for work to those locations by flight and none of them would understand the Native names of cities, it would bring a lot of confusion to visitors. *~~* *Denis Carriere* *GIS Software & Systems Specialist*