It was a pleasure to take part in the FOSS4G conference today in Cardiff.
video coming very soon
This presentation will be of interest to people who want to advance mapping in lesser-resourced languages around the world. Then again, anybody with an interest in the overall growth of OpenStreetMap would do well to pay attention to the multilingual aspects of the project – in my view.
Thanks to the organisers and all participants for an insightful day at FOSS4G!
If you’re interested in the server software and data aspects of Mapio Cymru and OpenStreetMap, come to my talk at FOSS4G.
FOSS4G is the international Free and Open Source Software Conference for Geospatial. This year it is happening on Thursday 17th November simultaneously over several physical sites around Wales, Scotland, and England – including Cardiff where I will be.
As Mapio Cymru we’ve shared our learnings and enthusiasm at several events and organised a few of our own events, variously through the medium of Welsh and English. This time my talk will be through the medium of English. I am going to focus on the more technical side – what happens on the servers, plus some context about the Welsh language situation for those who might need it.
I’ll be discussing how we’ve built a map of Wales in Welsh, what technical and other challenges we’ve overcome, what the next steps will be, and share our overall vision for bringing mapping in Welsh to all.
Hopefully somebody out there will be inspired to contribute to mapping in the Welsh language or OpenStreetMap as a wider project, or start their own initiative – perhaps for another lesser-resourced language.
At the time of writing this I’ve just heard that the allocation of tickets for the Cardiff branch of the event is now running low. If you’re unable to get a ticket you can still watch the recording afterwards.
This post is a video recording of our event Gweithdy Mapio Cymru held at Eisteddfod AmGen 2021.
The video is entirely through the medium of Welsh.
In the video we discuss:
Diolch o galon i Eisteddfod AmGen a’r Lle Hanes am y croeso, ac wrth gwrs i bawb a gymerodd rhan yn y gweithdy!
UPDATE: Here’s the video of the event.
This is an introduction to the Mapio Cymru project which is creating a map of Wales with place names in Welsh.
During the session there will be opportunities to play with the map, find names and locations, and contribute information to the next generation of Welsh map apps.
The work is relevant to education, leisure, employment, heritage and community – and history.
The organisers will describe how the project takes advantage of open and freely-licensed web resources such as OpenStreetMap and Wikipedia / Wikidata, and what you can do to get involved.
No prior experience or understanding is required, just curiosity!
This Zoom workshop has been organised by the Mapio Cymru project in association with Y Lle Hanes.
dydd Iau 5ed Awst 2021
3PM tan 4PM
On Zoom
Please note that this event at Eisteddfod AmGen 2021 will be held through the medium of Welsh. Please see the post in Welsh for further details.