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" <[email protected]> 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 <[email protected]> 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" <[email protected]> wrote: >> >> More like French for the entirety of the province of Quebec >> >> On Apr 10, 2017 7:38 PM, "Yuri Astrakhan" <[email protected]> >> 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 >> [email protected] >> https://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk >> >>
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