[Talk-GB] OSM UK's first tile layer

2020-10-16 Thread Rob Nickerson
Hi all, Just in time for the AGM, I have just published OSM UK's first tile layer. No don't get too excited it is not a full map render. Instead I have produced a very simple tiling of the Land Registry polygon data now that this is under the OGL Open Data Licence. My view is that this is a good

Re: [Talk-GB] Multi-lingual tagging in Wales

2020-10-16 Thread Andy Townsend
Hi Gruff, hi Ben, On 16/10/2020 14:08, Gruff Owen wrote: The ability to include an :en or :cy tag name field is really helpful for this but it's unfortunate that ultimately we have to choose a single name tag for each place name - giving the impression that one language has precedence over

Re: [Talk-GB] Multi-lingual tagging in Wales

2020-10-16 Thread Philip Barnes
On Fri, 2020-10-16 at 14:28 +0100, David Woolley wrote: > On 16/10/2020 14:08, Gruff Owen wrote: > > With that in mind, and admittedly polemicising the debate a little. > > If > > we accept the premise that the native language of Wales is Welsh > > and > > that OSM is a community mapping project

Re: [Talk-GB] Multi-lingual tagging in Wales

2020-10-16 Thread Andy Mabbett
On Fri, 16 Oct 2020 at 15:32, Edward Bainton wrote: > > I was going to suggest a cy-preferring tileserver, too. Possibly something > the Welsh govt would be willing to fund? Could it even be hosted at > cy.openstreetmap.org? It already exists, at: https://openstreetmap.cymru/ -- Andy

Re: [Talk-GB] Multi-lingual tagging in Wales

2020-10-16 Thread Edward Bainton
I was going to suggest a cy-preferring tileserver, too. Possibly something the Welsh govt would be willing to fund? Could it even be hosted at cy.openstreetmap.org? As a practical question, how does the on-the-ground criterion work in Welsh cases where street signs are bilingual? I ask out of

Re: [Talk-GB] Multi-lingual tagging in Wales

2020-10-16 Thread David Woolley
On 16/10/2020 14:08, Gruff Owen wrote: With that in mind, and admittedly polemicising the debate a little. If we accept the premise that the native language of Wales is Welsh and that OSM is a community mapping project where we have an opportunity to respect native communities in a way that

Re: [Talk-GB] Multi-lingual tagging in Wales

2020-10-16 Thread Gruff Owen
Hi Ben, Have been lurking in the background of GB-Talk for a little while and just learning the ropes with OSM at the moment. But I have done a bit of reading around the GB-Talk archives on this subject because it's really hard to know what to do with English / Welsh names in some cases. I come