Ireland has 2 official languges (Irish first & then English), but only
~2% of the population speak Irish daily. There are some legal defined
regions of Ireland which are supposed to be "Irish speaking areas", but
even there Irish is a minority language. So how should that be tagged?
(Some day we'll get around to mapping the Gaeltachtaí)
If you want to know the language in a multi-lingual area, why not look
at the name, and name:XX tags. If the name value is the same as a name:Z
then Z is the language.
Compare https://www.openstreetmap.org/node/52245274
name=Crossmolina
name:en=Crossmolina
name:ga=Crois Mhaoilíona
with https://www.openstreetmap.org/node/52218312
name=Béal an Mhuirthead
name:en=Belmullet
name:ga=Béal an Mhuirthead
This could be done on a street level too.
On 18/04/18 21:41, Yuri Astrakhan 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?
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