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

[Jez Nicholson]

Good stuff, Ben!

Mateusz pointed out https://osm.wikidata.link/ and maybe talk to Edward
Betts about contributing code to it
https://github.com/EdwardBetts/osm-wikidata

Are you thinking of getting the general public involved?

On Wed, Jul 28, 2021 at 8:43 PM Mateusz Konieczny via Talk-GB <
talk-gb at openstreetmap.org> wrote:

> Or Wales obviously. Not sure why I mentioned Ireland.
>
> Jul 28, 2021, 10:44 by matkoniecz at tutanota.com:
>
> https://matkoniecz.github.io/OSM-wikipedia-tag-validator-reports/ - I am
> generating some
> reports about invalid wikipedia/wikidata tags - if you want and it would
> be used I can
> generate also one for Ireland
>
>
> Jul 28, 2021, 10:19 by 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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