I entirely agree and have been looking at a way we could start this in
OSM in a systematic way.
There are a ton of things OSM could benefit from with this.
But this is, IMHO an OSM issue (an OSM import) and not something the
Wikipedia folks here need to worry about so I think it belongs on an
On Tue, Mar 10, 2015 at 1:15 PM, Markus Bärlocher
markus.baerloc...@lau-net.de wrote:
Hi Thad,
I helped with the Lighthouses schema in Freebase.
:-)
We have imported the LoL into OSM (40'000 lights),
and show them on OpenSeaMap:
Mechanically generated names by transliteration bots
or by direct word for word translation (depending on the custom generally
used in the target language) may well be appropriate in many cases
Remember that I'm talking about place names, rather than other types
of names. Within that scope, I
Hi all,
I'm a relative newcommer to Wikidata but long time OpenStreetMap contributor.
Recently OpenStreetMap has a situation where large numbers of
translated names have been added to OSM objects. When asked about the
origin of these names, I've been told a number of places, one of which
is
For places where precision is required, has anyone given thought to
using Geohash keys rather than lat/lon?
The benefits of geohashing here is that you get both the location and
also the precision values in a single object.
As a secondary benefit, it can be used to index on a database with
more
