Majority language boundaries would be enough for most use cases. Sample tagging:
type=boundary boundary=language name=Italiano ref= 18-04-2018 22:49 tarihinde Vao Matua yazdı: > 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 <mailto: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? > Yours, faithfully Erkin Alp _______________________________________________ Tagging mailing list Tagging@openstreetmap.org https://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/tagging
