Consider including language polygons where available

[SimonGreenhill]

There's some recent work on language polygons, e.g. @chirila has put this dataset on Zenodo.

It would be awesome to have this sort of data linked into glottolog, and since glottolog stores lat/longs, this is a somewhat natural extension.

I don't know the technical feasibility of this (can you link to a specific polygon within a kml file or do you need to have one kml per language?).

[xrotwang]

I think redistributing this data in a way that is easy to link to would be nice, e.g. as a set of GeoJSON files, named as <glottocode>.geojson. Proper inclusion in clld/glottolog is unfortunately not possibly due to the NC clause in the license ...

[tresoldi]

+1 for GeoJSON. "Simple Features", despite the name, is the kind of standard designed by a committee, GML/KML are good alternatives but don't offer much over GeoJSON (and they are based in XML...), other formats are either proprietary or not common. 2018-03-02 5:09 GMT-03:00 Robert Forkel <notifications@github.com>:

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