From: Christopher Fynn (cfynn@gmx.net)
Date: Sun May 27 2007 - 17:09:24 CDT
Eric Muller wrote:
> I just noticed two products from Global Mapping International: the
> Seamless Digital Chart of the World Base Map
> (<http://www.gmi.org/wlms/dcw.htm>), and the World Language Mapping
> System (<http://www.gmi.org/wlms/index.htm>). If I understand correctly,
> the later is essentially a GIS form of the Ethnologue data, and is used
> to produce the maps in the printed edition of The Ethnologue. I am
> impressed by the ability to create maps such as those at
> <http://www.gmi.org/wlms/users/huffman/>.
Over ten years ago the Linguasphere project produced some very nice linguistic
maps which were supposed to be published as an atlas of the world's languages. I
saw the original maps but don't know if the atlas was ever published - it would
have been pretty expensive to do so.
Someone must have the original files - and it would be a whole lot cheaper to
publish these in digital format than as a printed atlas.
Linguasphere also had a language classification and code scheme which many
people preferred to that used in the SIL Ethnologue
<http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Linguasphere_language_code>
- Chris
>
> I am wondering if anybody has experience with those products, and what
> kind of setup you use.
>
> The kind of application I am interested in is to take data like "Numbers
>> from 1 to 10 in Over 5000 Languages"
> <http://www.zompist.com/numbers.shtml> or CLDR data and put them on
> maps. I am interested by both static maps and interactive maps (most
> likely using Flash technology).
>
> Thanks,
> Eric.
>
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