[OSM-talk-ie] Web page map of Dublin Streets but with name:ga shown.

Brian Hollinshead brian at hollinshead.net
Wed Aug 11 12:39:41 UTC 2021


Hi Rebecca,
My interest at the moment is confined to streets, with the option to offer
an alternative with old_name=*




On Wed, 11 Aug 2021 at 13:05, Rebecca O'Neill <rebeccanineil at gmail.com>
wrote:

> On the Welsh map, Jason Evans, the Welsh Wikimedian on Residence is working
> with the Welsh government dataset, Wikidata and OSM to improve the coverage
> of those place names as well as looking to crowd source where there are
> gaps in the dataset.
>
> If there is similar support we can look to do with Wikidata here in
> Ireland, I'm happy to help. I know someone imported a load of entries from
> Log Ainm into Wikidata in the past year, so a lot of place names *should*
> have bilingual entries.
>
> On Wed 11 Aug 2021, 12:58 Andy Townsend, <ajt1047 at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> > On 11/08/2021 12:31, Brian Hollinshead wrote:
> > > Just wondering, on a scale of 1 to 10 how hard that might be to do?
> > Perhaps
> > > with only streets shown.
> > >
> > If you want "the same map style as the standard map at osm.org", but
> > with "name:ga" used in place of "name" where it exists in the OSM data,
> > then you'd need to:
> >
> > 1) Follow one of the "serving tiles" options at
> > https://switch2osm.org/serving-tiles/
> >
> > 2) Change the default lua tag transformation script to include something
> > like:
> >
> >     if ( keyvalues["name:ga"] ~= nil ) then
> >        keyvalues["name"] = keyvalues["name:ga"]
> >        keyvalues["name:ga"] = nil
> >     end
> >
> > 3) Load data based on Dublin (or Ireland - it's not that big)
> >
> > This will work both with the initial data load and "minutely updates" -
> > so you'll be able to see more "name:ga" as people add them.
> >
> > Separately to this I did write a diary entry
> > https://www.openstreetmap.org/user/SomeoneElse/diary/42069 for how I
> > handle name:cy and name:gd at map.atownsend.org.uk/ , but that's _way_
> > more complicated than what you want for this.
> >
> > Another example is https://openstreetmap.cymru/ - that's a map that only
> > shows Welsh names, but it's fairly empty where welsh names are rare
> > (which might be exactly what you want of course).
> >
> > At a rough guess you'd be looking at paying from about €11 a month for a
> > server for it.
> >
> > Best Regards,
> >
> > Andy
> >
> >
> >
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