Orleans is part of Ottawa and all street names signs are bilingual or in the process of being replaced by bilingual ones. Certainly the street I live on in Orleans has a bilingual street name sign. The English French question is very much political in Canada and I suspect much of the world.
Montreal has a quite large English speaking community which is rare in Quebec. You could try looking at the street names to see if they are in English and have a second language name as well. name:fr for example. Cheerio John On 10 April 2017 at 20:47, James <[email protected]> wrote: > Well it might not be as simple as you say...take for instance Ottawa. It's > in Ontario and pretty english. There is a suburb called Orléans in which is > pretty much "the french part of town" as most street signs will be in > french, but rest of Ottawa is pretty English(in terms of street signs) > > So generilizing wont help you much... > > On Apr 10, 2017 8:27 PM, "Yuri Astrakhan" <[email protected]> wrote: > >> 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 <[email protected]> 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" <[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 >>> >>> > _______________________________________________ > talk mailing list > [email protected] > https://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk > >
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