Apparently Singapore has sunk into the ocean.
Show HN: I made a website that color-codes the world by language
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Re: Show HN: I made a website that color-codes the world by language
#42This is nice as a demo webapp, but I wouldn't rely on it. To sum up the other comments, you have two possibilities:
- If it shows the language as spoken (=official language) in a country, a significant proportion of the population might still not speak it, e.g. French in Canada (native French speakers mostly in Quebec) or Russian in Estonia (not wanting to learn the language of the former occupying power).
- Even if a language is not an official language in a country, you might still get lucky, e.g. there are a lot of Hungarians in Romania, you can get pretty far with German in places frequented by German tourists, not to mention English.
Re: Show HN: I made a website that color-codes the world by language
#43Bali doesn't speak Bahasa, they speak Balinese.
Re: Show HN: I made a website that color-codes the world by language
#44Using GPI as a proxy for "physical safety" is a bad choice. Physical safety is only a small part of a GPI score. Just use crime rate. That's what people care about - "Will I be the victim of a crime if I travel here".
> North America is more peaceful than the global average on the Safety and Security and Ongoing Conflict domains, but scores poorly on the Militarisation domain, particularly with regards to military expenditure, nuclear and heavy weapons, and weapons exports.
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Re: Show HN: I made a website that color-codes the world by language
#45Using GPI as a proxy for "physical safety" is a bad choice. Physical safety is only a small part of a GPI score. Just use crime rate. That's what people care about - "Will I be the victim of a crime if I travel here". > North America is more peaceful than the global average on the Safety and Security and Ongoing Conflict domains, but scores poorly on the Militarisation domain, particularly with regards to military ex…
Does the militarization of a country or its capacity to produce nuclear weapons matter as far as a destination for travel though? Genuinely asking.
Re: Show HN: I made a website that color-codes the world by language
#46One thing I noticed - currently the map is dependent on the how the languages are selected. Selecting English first then French second gives a different map compared to selecting French first and English second (Look at Canada in both these cases). I would expect to have the same map if the same languages are selected regardless of selection order.
You could argue that your use-case is displaying the possible countries that you can communicate in which the site accomplishes. Why have the different colors based on language, then?
Great job on the site in general. It's very straightforward and easy to use.
Re: Show HN: I made a website that color-codes the world by language
#47Using GPI as a proxy for "physical safety" is a bad choice. Physical safety is only a small part of a GPI score. Just use crime rate. That's what people care about - "Will I be the victim of a crime if I travel here". > North America is more peaceful than the global average on the Safety and Security and Ongoing Conflict domains, but scores poorly on the Militarisation domain, particularly with regards to military ex…
Does the militarization of a country or its capacity to produce nuclear weapons matter as far as a destination for travel though? Genuinely asking.
I don't think so. Unless the country in question is actively at war, their military budget or weapons arsenal does not matter to me as a tourist. Its not like they are going to nuke their own cities.
If anything, I want my travel destinations to have as big a military as possible. As a tourist I don't have to pay for any of the negative externalities of a large military, but would benefit from its protection.
Re: Show HN: I made a website that color-codes the world by language
#48In my experience a lot of this is quite incomplete. Obviously this uses a dataset like "official languages" of each country. For example, English would grt you very far in the Netherlands, but its not colored. Dutch can get you quite far in South Africa, but its not colored. English in particular should color most of the globe, except countries like Russia, France, and a few other blatant exceptions.
> except countries like Russia
Can confirm, here it'll be problematic for one to speak in English with anyone younger than 16 / older than 40 and/or outside major population centers. (though in my experience, its the same situation with English in Austria and Russian in Latvia/Lithuania).
Re: Show HN: I made a website that color-codes the world by language
#49Almost the whole of Scandinavia speaks English as a second language, and yet English does not highlight any or the four countries. Most Scandinavian people might agree with this general observation that knowing little to no Nordic language can still get you by very comfortably in that region, although knowing the national language is a plus. Second, China speaks Mandarin and Cantonese (not available), and several reg…
A decent proportion of young Scandinavians speak English. Not all of them, and it definitely doesn't extend as a generality to older people.
Eh. That isn't what the comment you replied to is saying. It's enough that it easily puts it with some of the other places that are highlighted as English.
The site says "enter the languages you speak below to see with how many parts of the world you can communicate". Quite misleading.
Re: Show HN: I made a website that color-codes the world by language
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