Vao, I think OSM is perfect for this specifically because you need local knowledge like what you describe to create it :) It would not be possible to create it as accurately without that on-the-ground info. Of course we can also expand the actual tags based on such feedback.
On Wed, Apr 18, 2018 at 10:49 PM, Vao Matua <vaoma...@gmail.com> wrote: > I would suggest that OSM is probably not the best place for this. There > are many countries that have many or even hundreds of languages. The lines > between the places where languages are commonly spoken can be quite fuzzy > and often do not follow any other features. A year ago I was living in a > place where people living there spoke 3 different languages in addition to > the "official" language. > > On Wed, Apr 18, 2018 at 12:41 PM, Yuri Astrakhan <yuriastrak...@gmail.com> > wrote: > >> What would be the best tags to use for mapping language regions? I would >> like to create a map of primary languages spoken in an area. This will >> greatly help with multilingual maps, allowing data consumers to calculate >> which language name tags to use for which locale. This will also give OSM >> community a much greater control over such maps. >> >> Proposal (relations only, must have closed polygons): >> type=language >> primary=xx (required) >> secondary=yy;zz;... (optional) >> >> A relation may span multiple countries (e.g. US and most of Canada for >> English), or split countries (e.g. EN and FR regions in Canada). In some >> cases, the relation will reuse country border ways. >> >> What do you think? >> >> _______________________________________________ >> Tagging mailing list >> Tagging@openstreetmap.org >> https://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/tagging >> >> > > _______________________________________________ > Tagging mailing list > Tagging@openstreetmap.org > https://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/tagging > >
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