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

[Rupert Allan]

Thanks for this, Ben.

On the subject of Wales, I am still hopeful to continue the South Wales
community assets mapping project, and I can foresee this having many
crossovers and mutual benefits.

We are meanwhile working on a National Library of Wales project - also
linking with Wikimedia, work through People's Collection Wales and the
British Library Sound archives. We'll be encouraging community members to
identify old ruins of cultural significance and perhaps some other
geo-information for OSM.

I hope to introduce people to using OSMAnd, and OSM membership as part of
the project, so very useful to hear of the wiki-relevant advice here.

Best,

Rupert



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On Wed, 28 Jul 2021, 09:21 Ben Proctor, <ben at benproctor.co.uk> wrote:

> 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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