We’re delighted to be part of Mapio Cymru

A map based on OpenStreetMap data only using Welsh language place names.

This year we are pleased to become full partners in the Mapio Cymru project. Our data and digital innovation director (or as we tend to call him: Ben) has been involved with the project from the start and he’s been keen that we bring our focus on data awesomeness to the project.

Mapio Cymru is hosted by our partners Service Works in Cardiff (the company previously known as The Satori Lab Ltd). It aims to improve the quality and availability of Welsh language mapping data and to encourage the use of open source mapping in Wales. The project’s best known product is openstreetmap.cymru which provides a Welsh language map of Wales (and a few other places in the British isles). It’s based on the crowdsourced OpenStreetMap dataset. Places that are explicitly tagged with a name in Welsh will have that name appear on openstreetmap.cymru. This year the project wants to focus on increasing the scope of Welsh language tagging in the database as well as improving the overall data across Wales. This work is kindly funded by the Welsh Government. If you’d like to get involved, find out more about Mapio Cymru or find out more about our digital innovation projects, please do contact Ben.

(all images are copyright OpenStreetMap contributors)