Building Bilingual Services: mapping Welsh

This week we welcomed directors of Mapio Cymru to the community of practice session.

Mapio Cymru is a project that began in Cardiff with seed funding from the Welsh Government’s Cymraeg 2050 campaign, as part of their target to have a million Welsh speakers by 2050.

Mapio Cymru aims to improve the availability of maps in the Welsh language and increase their use. It maintains a Welsh language map of Wales at openstreetmap.cymru.

With 32 people at the session, questions were about keeping mapping data up to date, translating landmarks and street names.

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https://twitter.com/MapioCymru/status/1524672620553199616

We captured the main points of the presentation in the Twitter thread below:

https://twitter.com/cdps_cymru/status/1524690932427276289

Social media highlights: custard slices and risk mapping

It’s been a busy week! The Deputy Minister for Climate Change, Lee Waters, agreed to film a foreword for CDPS’s annual review, looking back at our achievements over the financial year 2021-22.

Thankfully the sun shone in Cardiff Bay on Wednesday! Gemma took the deputy minister’s favourite sweet, custard slices, to thank him for taking the time out of his schedule. They went down a treat!

https://twitter.com/Amanwy/status/1524409973907861504

In the spirit of working in the open, our board met and mapped out risks at their meeting on Thursday. Board member Ruth Glazzard has filmed a short update, which we will be publishing soon.

https://twitter.com/Harriet_CDPS/status/1524840983816458273

https://twitter.com/jessleighjones1/status/1524825018684809217

Bilingual weeknotes – a first!

This was a first for CDPS. We publish weeknotes for the whole of CDPS, which we email to a bunch of varied stakeholders. They have previously only been in English but, to practise what we preach and meet Welsh language standards, we also published the weeknotes in Welsh this week for the first time.

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