Provide an geographer-nl

[gaetan-petit]

Hello,

We'd like to integrate Geographer in our solution, is there any way you could provide a package for dutch ?
Or describing how we could gather and package data on our own ?

Thank you.

[dusterio]

@gaetan-petit we would be glad if somebody added an extra language (Dutch in this case)
You could take Geonames free database as a starting point - take whatever translations are already there, and then improve it gradually?

[gaetan-petit]

@dusterio I'm not familiar with Geonames, did you extract the data from there with a script ? Or are you suggestion forking geographer-data and reviewing all the data by hand (doable but that would be a massive amount of work).

[gaetan-petit]

@dusterio could you create a geographer-nl repo for us and add nl locale in geographer main repository?
Thank you.

[gaetan-petit]

@dusterio Do you think you can do that? At least give me an answer so we could react on our side.

[dusterio]

@gaetan-petit I created a new repo https://github.com/MenaraSolutions/geographer-nl - I will fill it with publicly available translations (geonames) tomorrow, but then you will probably need to make some fixes via pull requests :))

[gaetan-petit]

Awesome 🎊 Thank you @dusterio !

We will, we started to gather some data about state names in dutch and we will provide them via PR.
I think you also have to make a change to the main repo to make nl available too, right ?

[dusterio]

@gaetan-petit I added the language to the main package ("geographer") as well, and geographer-nl has an example of country list. Whenever you can update the translations - I'll merge it quickly :)

[gaetan-petit]

@dusterio thank you again.
Could you provide the states list as well ?
We will try to fill it asap.

[gaetan-petit]

Hello @dusterio I think my message went unnoticed, could you also populate the states list ?