On Thursday 08 June 2017, Edward Betts wrote: > > Please check each match carefully before uploading to > OpenStreetMap. If in doubt, contact the local mapping community > before adding Wikidata tags.
This will not help much though - every single mapper i have seen performing mechanical edits along these lines in the past years was sure their edits were factually correct and diligently checked - partly because of the fact that what is written on Wikipedia is often a significant part of the perceived trouth about the world. This all would not be too bad - after all it is just one simple tag but the trouble is later other mappers will use that to fix discrepancies between OSM and Wikidata for example by 'correcting' names in OSM. I am not against the idea of cross referencing these databases but it would be great if (a) this would be universally treated as 'related objects' rather than a one-to-one relationship and (b) at least like ten percent of the time and effort put into such work is invested in educating people about error sources and teaching people about reliably researching geographic facts. Too often the impression i get is the aim is more producing and connecting data per se than actually recording reliable factual information. -- Christoph Hormann http://www.imagico.de/ _______________________________________________ talk mailing list talk@openstreetmap.org https://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk
