Geographical language data

From: Eric Muller (emuller@adobe.com)
Date: Sun May 27 2007 - 13:25:59 CDT

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    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/>.

    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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