On Mon, May 17, 2010 at 12:59 AM, Richard Weait
<richard@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
On Thu, May 13, 2010 at 8:46 AM, Adam Glauser <adamglauser@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> On 12/05/2010 10:13 PM, Richard Weait wrote:
>> Are there bilingual road signs in Ottawa?
>
> Yes. For example:
>
> http://bit.ly/9Y8JDn *
>
> This can lead to humourous situations when anglos like myself are
> absentminded. Shortly after moving to Ottawa, when driving around
> looking for a particular address, someone was heard to remark "I think
> we just passed Rue Street".
Excellent, Adam.
I'm reminded of a person, newly arrived in bilingual Canada, and
instructed to buy some "Soda, anything but grape." You guessed it.
An entire case of "Raisin" soda and an unhappy partner.
Here is a link to the map. As I mentioned earlier it has known
drawbacks. Where no name:fr exists I did not fall back to name, so
many objects are blank. However, we do get a nice look at many
countries and major cities with their names en français. Please,
let's keep this link just between us on talk-ca. No reason to shout
it to the world until we've improved it, eh?
I'll improve this map this week. I'll add a layer with fallback-name
and perhaps some other goodies.
http://weait.com:8080/map/
Additional known issues:
- this site is slow (rate-limited)
- this site will fall over without warning
Now that we can see name:fr, and our provinces look pretty good, would
anybody like to add name:fr for the states of our neighbour to the
south?
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