Hi all,
I led the project last year to include Wikidata on the Welsh OSM so perhaps I can answer
your question.
The map prioritises Welsh place names from OSM where available. We filled some of the gaps
(around 5-6k I think) by pulling Welsh labels from Wikidata where OSM entries have
Qid's but no Welsh name.
Alongside this we did some work to add more Qid's to Welsh places on OSM but this was
done manually. I've also done a lot of work to clean up Welsh settlement data on
Wikidata. Andy knows the OSM community better than me but my understanding is that there
is more reluctance to go for big batch edits than on Wikidata, but long term, adding more
qid's to OSM (aligning the data) would be super valuable for getting the most out of
the open data that is already out there, especially for mapping in smaller languages.
Hope that helps,
Jason
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Jason Evans
Rheolwr Data Agored / Open Data Manager
Llyfrgell Genedlaethol Cymru / National Library of Wales
jason.evans(a)llgc.org.uk
Ffon/Tel: +44 (0)1970 632405
On Monday, October 17, 2022 15:39 BST, "Federico Leva (Nemo)"
<nemowiki(a)gmail.com> wrote:
Il 17/10/22 13:56, Andy Mabbett ha scritto:
Forwarding for interest:
Thank you, this is excellent!
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.
Does this mean that the name on Wikidata takes precedence over any name
on OSM and that there's no additional data source beyond OSM and
Wikidata? In other words are they contributing any changes directly to
OSM and Wikidata?
Federico
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