Map multilingual Brussels
From "Brussels hacks the crisis"
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Brussels is one of the most diverse cities in terms of nationalities and languages spoken.
It would be great to know exactly how and where all the different languages are spoken. This could inspire people to explore other neighbourhoods and practice their languages.
A great example of this is LinguaSnapp - Manchester's Multilingual Landscape:
The world’s first linguistic landscapes mobile app. Data collection and analysis through crowdsourcing
LinguaSnapp is a project to develop a multilingual landscape map of Manchester, UK. We are trying to find the hotspots where more than one language is in common use, and what those languages are. Our app users help us discover this information, by, when walking down the street, reporting any sign, poster, leaflet or other text that is written in more than one language. We are interested in towns and cities from outside Manchester too, in fact anywhere in the world!
The map displays all the photos that have so far been collected by our app users. Browse it using the search boxes on the left hand side.
International versions of LinguaSnapp, tailored to the locality, are coordinated by partner institutions in the following cities: Jerusalem, Melbourne, St.Petersburg, Hamburg & Birmingham.
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It would be great if OSOC students could start from the existing app and tweak it to the Brussels context.