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

[Ben Proctor]

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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