[OSGeo-UK] Fwd: Welsh Government is now using a Welsh-language baselayer largely based on OSM

[Nick Bearman]

-------- Forwarded Message --------
Subject: 	[Talk-GB] Welsh Government is now using a Welsh-language 
baselayer largely based on OSM
Date: 	Mon, 17 Oct 2022 09:17:14 +0100
From: 	Ben Proctor <ben at benproctor.co.uk>
To: 	talk-gb at openstreetmap.org <talk-gb at openstreetmap.org>



Hi all

I thought this might interest some of you. The Welsh Government's new 
mapping platform Data Map Wales (used for publishing and sharing public 
geo data) now has an optional base layer entirely in Welsh. This is 
largely based on OSM data (with some additional names from Wikidata.

Data Orchard CIC supplies the data to the platform though our Mapio 
Cymru project. Welsh Government creates its own tiles. We originally 
looked at serving tiles from https://openstreetmap.cymru but, of course, 
Welsh Government use a different projection so this caused some distortion.

They take data via Mapio Cymru rather than from OSM directly because we 
apply some additional rules and bring in names from Wikidata where 
appropriate. This also means that as we improve Welsh name 
identification they'll get the benefit of that.

  We'll be publishing a blog post about it today at https://mapio.cymru 
and there's an online article about it at 
https://nation.cymru/news/users-of-digital-mapping-platform-can-now-visualise-wales-entirely-in-cymraeg/

Any questions, suggestions or comments welcomed.
-------------- next part --------------
An HTML attachment was scrubbed...
URL: <http://lists.osgeo.org/pipermail/uk/attachments/20221018/564e4938/attachment.htm>
-------------- next part --------------
_______________________________________________
Talk-GB mailing list
Talk-GB at openstreetmap.org
https://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk-gb