[Talk-GB] A focus on adding wikidata tags to OSM in Wales

[Michael Collinson]

Hi Jean,

Fantastic! (I hope you don't mind a bit of gushy eulogising).

It has long been my dream and mapping motivation to have a map app or 
even just overlay where I can enter my interests, for example history, 
and have it point out any features to look at as I stroll or cycle 
passed plus give more information if I'm interested. To that end, I have 
been very diligent in adding a very short description= tag to many 
features to give immediate feedback plus capture things of marginal 
highly local interest. Larger amounts of information really does not 
have a place in OSM so I have always assumed a link out to 
Wikidata/Wikipedia.

This therefore looks a very interesting bit of enabling technology. 
Thank you for presenting it.

Mike

On 2021-08-04 00:14, Jean-Baptiste Robertson wrote:
> Hi Ben, everybody,
>
> in the wake of Ben's post, I thought I'd advertise a toy OSM/Wikimedia mashup project that I have been working on:
>
>    https://cymru.subbasis.net/
>
>
> This takes advantage of the Mapio Cymru tileserver and of the Wikidata linking that's been going on in Wales, to display Wikipedia articles or Wikidata factsheets, so that Wikipedia and OSM can be navigated side by side.
>
> So far, by order of priority the site displays cy.wikipedia.org articles, en.wikipedia.org articles and Wikidata factsheets in English.
>
> I hope it's OK to advertise this here.
>
> All the best
> Jean
>
>
> 2021-07-28 09:19 GMT+01:00 "Ben Proctor" <ben at benproctor.co.uk>:
>> I thought subscribers to this list would be interested to hear that the
>> National Library of Wales has received some funding from the Welsh
>> Government to work with Mapio Cymru this year.
>> https://mapio.cymru/en/2021/07/dal-i-fapio/
>> We are working on a variety of projects designed to improve the links
>> between OSM and Wikidata in Wales. The National Library has a resident
>> Wikimedian and a great deal of work over the past few has gone into
>> adding data about Wales to Wikidata (not all of which is geospatial but
>> much of which is or has a geospatial component).
>>
>> In particular we will be trying to increase the number of OSM entities
>> in Wales tagged with the appropriate Wikidata QID.
>>
>> This should have direct benefits to the Mapio Cymru tileserver
>> https://openstreetmap.cymru/ In cases where we cannot identify a Welsh
>> name in OSM our script looks for a Wikidata QID and uses the Welsh label
>> (if there is one) from Wikidata as the label on the tile.
>>
>> My employers (Data Orchard CIC) have hired a student placement this
>> summer and a portion of her time is dedicated to this project which is
>> very helpful.
>>
>> In anyone has suggestions, questions or would like to join in, please
>> let me know.
>>
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