Forwarding for interest: ---------- Forwarded message --------- From: Ben Proctor <ben(a)benproctor.co.uk> Date: Mon, 17 Oct 2022 at 09:17 Subject: [Talk-GB] Welsh Government is now using a Welsh-language baselayer largely based on OSM To: talk-gb(a)openstreetmap.org <talk-gb(a)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-visuali… Any questions, suggestions or comments welcomed. _______________________________________________ Talk-GB mailing list Talk-GB(a)openstreetmap.org https://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk-gb -- Andy Mabbett @pigsonthewing http://pigsonthewing.org.uk