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The app is available for download and use worldwide. Plus, we have just released the group update with improved features for the creation of teams and working groups within project. If you would like to use the app for an individual or group project, just let us know.

Map & Info

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Info

Have you ever wondered how many signs you pass on your daily way to work? In which languages these signs are lettered? And how language in public space changes over time? Welcome to Lingscape!

Writing is everywhere in public space. All different kinds of signs and lettering form the linguistic landscape of a place or community. Often these signs display different languages, be they on the same sign or next to each other. Lingscape is an app for researching such linguistic landscapes all over the world. Therefore we collect photos of signs and lettering on an interactive map.

Our main objectives: We want to analyze the diversity and dynamics of public writing. And we want to do that together with people from all over the world.

You can help us to collect as many photos as possible. Upload your own photos or explore the map with all photos added by other users. Share photos you like with your friends. Become a citizen scientist by contributing to the project.

Citizen science meets linguistic landscaping, or short: Lingscape!

Signs

Take photos of signs and lettering in public space! Help us document and analyze language use and visible multilingualism

Map

Explore the map with all photos uploaded by users! Discover polymorphic linguistic landscapes all over the world

Projects

Create your own projects, publish your own datasets! Get your project account to use Lingscape for your research 

Repository

Build your own corpus, publish your own datasets! In our public repository, your data is citable and future-proof

What's happening in the project?

Updates

List of recent additions to the language list, new features and updates

Media coverage

List of press coverage appearances and mentionings of the project in the media

Activities

List of project-related outreach activities, publications, and talks

Screenshots

Home screen with base map

Example of the upload process

Settings screen for projects

Stats

These basic stats will be updated manually on a weekly basis.

4553
Downloads from Apple App Store
1497
Number of active contributors
1649
Downloads from Google Play Store

Projects

Lingscape is all about opening spaces for collaboration and co-explorataion, and about providing you with the means to do so through our apps & platform. If you want to use the app for your own research project, just let us know. The platform is open for everyone.

Here you can find infos about our community and useful resources for projects.

List of public projects

Here you can find all currently publicly available projects we are hosting on our platform.
Have a project that is not yet publicly available? Jut get in touch with us, or change the visibility in your project settings.

Tutorial (ENG)

Got questions about how to set up a project or change a setting on the platform? We are here for you. Just drop us a line, or look up the inner workings of the platform here.

There is also a German version of the tutorial available. Other translations could be prepared upon request.

VisibLL

Featured project

The VisibLL project is a recent addition to our list of international cooperations. Led by a Vienna-based research team, the project explores the LL of the city together with teachers and students. The project is funded by the “Sparkling Science” initiative of the OEAD.

A collaborative story

Tapping together

Backstory

News from the machine room 1

The Lingscape app and project have been around for a while now, since we have published the first edition of the app in fall 2016. Together, we have already collected …

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Our Team

Christoph Purschke
Lingscape officer
Jacques Spedener
Lingscape officer
Peter Gilles
Lingscape officer
ibros.ch
App development

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    You miss a language you want to tag? You would like to use the app for your own research? You are working on a linguistic landscaping project? Let us know what you think about Lingscape. We are happy to welcome you in the project.
    We speak Deutsch, English, Français, Italiano, Lëtzebuergesch and Plattdüütsch.



    Université du Luxembourg
    Institut fir lëtzebuergesch Sprooch- a Literaturwëssenschaft
    Maison des Sciences Humaines
    11, Porte des Sciences
    L-4366 Esch/Alzette Luxembourg