[mkgmap-dev] A contribution to the vocabulary based on the mkgmap default style and typ files.

Sun Aug 9 22:26:07 BST 2020

Dear, Sirs:

nick at Pinns, UK, pointed out that Garmin had other assigned language 
codes than those in the mkgmap documentation that I found and supplied 
me the additional codes and language pairs. I note that three of the 
languages Google Translate does not have. Those codes have been left 
unused. Brazilian is Portuguese in the sense that British and American 
are both English. There is a Portuguese translation in the set. 
Moldavian is Romanian in Cyrillic letters and there is a Romanian 
translation in the set. Montenegrin is not present at Google; but, both 
Serbian and Croatian are present in the set. These are closely related 
languages and may be mutually intelligible with Montenegrin. The other 
languages common to Garmin and Google were given their Garmin assigned 
codes. The remaining languages were given codes at 0x40 and above to 
move them away from the Garmin codes.

Sincerlely,
Randolph J. Herber

On 8/9/2020 4:41 AM, nick wrote:
> On 08/08/2020 21:42, Randolph J. Herber wrote:
>> Hi, all!
>>
>> First, note the attached file is in JSON format and is inherently UTF-8.
>>
>> Second, the file contains four sub-tables: point, line, polygon, and 
>> language. The first three should be obvious. The language sub-table 
>> contains the languages presented. I used the extant codes for the 
>> extant languages mentioned in the mkgmap web documentation. I 
>> arbitrarily assigned codes for the other languages. Altogether, one 
>> hundred three languages are presented. I used Google Translate and am 
>> paying for Google's services here. Therefore, this is work-for-hire 
>> and I may give them away. Yes, I readily admit some of translations 
>> are awkward or even incorrect. There, I request consideration: I 
>> intend no offense and corrections are welcome. I tended not to change 
>> Eurocentric terms to American terms although in some cases I added 
>> the equivalent American term. I expanded some of the phrases in hopes 
>> of improving the machine translations.
>>
>> Third, I feel that all urban areas should be treated equivalently and 
>> I note Ticker Berkin's previous comments on that topic, the 
>> translations reflect my preferences. I did incorporate Ticker's most 
>> significant objection which I did find valid. Also, I feel that an 
>> logarithmic scale is appropriate in this application and that 3.2*3.2 
>> is 10.24, which is about 10. This allows a good range of population 
>> values.
>>
>> Fourth, I am working on incorporating this material into the default 
>> style and typ files, in particular the typ file.
>>
>> Thank you,
>> Randolph J. Herber
>>
>>
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