Re: [Wikidata-l] OpenStreetMap + Wikidata

2015-04-23 Thread Andy Mabbett
On 23 April 2015 at 15:20, Serge Wroclawski emac...@gmail.com wrote: I am not sure how I missed this discussion, but adding information from OSM into Wikidata en mass like this is a violation of the OSM license. Nobody is prosing to add information from OSM into Wikidata en mass. -- Andy

Re: [Wikidata-l] 176k items matched to OSM (Re: OpenStreetMap + Wikidata)

2015-04-23 Thread Thomas Douillard
There is Wikidata The Game for this :) Semi automatic tool with a community around ... 2015-04-23 16:22 GMT+02:00 Edward Betts edw...@4angle.com: James Heald j.he...@ucl.ac.uk wrote: The post last autumn said you had 176,000 items matched to OSM, a very large proportion of which (at least

Re: [Wikidata-l] OpenStreetMap + Wikidata for light houses

2015-04-23 Thread Edward Betts
Thad Guidry thadgui...@gmail.com wrote: I helped with the Lighthouses schema in Freebase. Some of which is based on List of Lights (NGA) USA. I have DB conversion data for the PDFs...just never got around to loading them all in. Let me know if I can help. I was able to match 407

Re: [Wikidata-l] OpenStreetMap + Wikidata

2015-04-23 Thread Jo
The best way to link objects from Wikidata and Openstreetmap is by adding wikidata tags to the OSM objects. That way those Q-numbers can follow along when an OSM object gets converted from a node to a way (POI to building for example) or from a way to a relation. (area to a multipolygon for

Re: [Wikidata-l] OpenStreetMap + Wikidata

2015-04-23 Thread Andy Mabbett
On 23 April 2015 at 15:09, Edward Betts edw...@4angle.com wrote: Here is my latest mapping between Wikidata items and OpenStreetMap objects: I'm still working on debugging the mismatches, before uploading the data to OpenStreetMap: Thank you - I'm looknig forward to seeing thsi happen. --

Re: [Wikidata-l] OpenStreetMap + Wikidata

2015-04-23 Thread Peter F. Patel-Schneider
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA256 How so? Oh, because Wikidata is CC0 and the Open Street Map database is ODbL, which is somewhat like CC BY-SA. I don't think that that follows, though, as what is being put into Wikidata is contents, which appear to me to be covered under the

Re: [Wikidata-l] 176k items matched to OSM (Re: OpenStreetMap + Wikidata)

2015-04-23 Thread Edward Betts
James Heald j.he...@ucl.ac.uk wrote: The post last autumn said you had 176,000 items matched to OSM, a very large proportion of which (at least at that time) had no P31 instance of, but you had been able to deduce this from Wikipedia. Would it be possible to start loading Wikidata with that

Re: [Wikidata-l] OpenStreetMap + Wikidata

2015-04-23 Thread Serge Wroclawski
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

Re: [Wikidata-l] OpenStreetMap + Wikidata

2015-04-23 Thread Jo
I'm under the impression people on this mailing list are more interested in this, than most of us mappers, so it belongs here as well. I agree with you as far as the import goes, if you can call it that. We should have way to easily add wikidata tags to OSM elements which already have wikipedia

Re: [Wikidata-l] World's largest cities with a female mayor :-)

2015-04-23 Thread Jeremy Baron
Hi, On Mon, Apr 20, 2015 at 8:29 PM, Nicola Vitucci nicola.vitu...@gmail.com wrote: Markus, this is really cool! Can I reuse it as an example on WikiSPARQL? :-) What's the difference between http://milenio.dcc.uchile.cl/sparql and WikiSPARQL? Just a different codebase/engine? should they be

Re: [Wikidata-l] OpenStreetMap + Wikidata for light houses

2015-04-23 Thread Thad Guidry
Tom, Split tool to the rescue ? :) Looks like the GeoNames ID is for the islet itself...so probably needs another entity for the Vinga Lighthouse itself sitting on that islet. Thad +ThadGuidry https://www.google.com/+ThadGuidry On Thu, Apr 23, 2015 at 1:02 PM, Tom Morris tfmor...@gmail.com

Re: [Wikidata-l] OpenStreetMap + Wikidata for light houses

2015-04-23 Thread Serge Wroclawski
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:

Re: [Wikidata-l] World's largest cities with a female mayor :-)

2015-04-23 Thread Kingsley Idehen
On 4/23/15 1:02 PM, Nicola Vitucci wrote: Il 23/04/2015 18:36, Gerard Meijssen ha scritto: Hoi, Do I understand correctly that you cannot have results showing labels for a given languages? Thanks, GerardM Hi Gerard, what do you mean? Are you looking for something like this?

Re: [Wikidata-l] World's largest cities with a female mayor :-)

2015-04-23 Thread Gerard Meijssen
Hoi, Do I understand correctly that you cannot have results showing labels for a given languages? Thanks, GerardM On 20 April 2015 at 22:18, Markus Krötzsch mar...@semantic-mediawiki.org wrote: Hi all, For many years, Denny and I have been giving talks about why we need to improve the

Re: [Wikidata-l] OpenStreetMap + Wikidata for light houses

2015-04-23 Thread Tom Morris
On Thu, Apr 23, 2015 at 10:16 AM, Edward Betts edw...@4angle.com wrote: Thad Guidry thadgui...@gmail.com wrote: I helped with the Lighthouses schema in Freebase. Some of which is based on List of Lights (NGA) USA. I have DB conversion data for the PDFs...just never got around to

Re: [Wikidata-l] World's largest cities with a female mayor :-)

2015-04-23 Thread Nicola Vitucci
Il 23/04/2015 18:36, Gerard Meijssen ha scritto: Hoi, Do I understand correctly that you cannot have results showing labels for a given languages? Thanks, GerardM Hi Gerard, what do you mean? Are you looking for something like this?

Re: [Wikidata-l] World's largest cities with a female mayor :-)

2015-04-23 Thread Gerard Meijssen
Hoi, Yes the link below is for Russian :) On 23 April 2015 at 19:02, Nicola Vitucci nicola.vitu...@gmail.com wrote: Il 23/04/2015 18:36, Gerard Meijssen ha scritto: Hoi, Do I understand correctly that you cannot have results showing labels for a given languages? Thanks, GerardM

Re: [Wikidata-l] World's largest cities with a female mayor :-)

2015-04-23 Thread Nicola Vitucci
Il 23/04/2015 20:01, Kingsley Idehen ha scritto: On 4/23/15 1:02 PM, Nicola Vitucci wrote: Il 23/04/2015 18:36, Gerard Meijssen ha scritto: Hoi, Do I understand correctly that you cannot have results showing labels for a given languages? Thanks, GerardM Hi Gerard, what do you

Re: [Wikidata-l] World's largest cities with a female mayor :-)

2015-04-23 Thread Nicola Vitucci
Il 23/04/2015 23:22, Kingsley Idehen ha scritto: On 4/23/15 2:01 PM, Kingsley Idehen wrote: On 4/23/15 1:02 PM, Nicola Vitucci wrote: Il 23/04/2015 18:36, Gerard Meijssen ha scritto: Hoi, Do I understand correctly that you cannot have results showing labels for a given languages? Thanks,

Re: [Wikidata-l] World's largest cities with a female mayor :-)

2015-04-23 Thread Kingsley Idehen
On 4/23/15 2:01 PM, Kingsley Idehen wrote: On 4/23/15 1:02 PM, Nicola Vitucci wrote: Il 23/04/2015 18:36, Gerard Meijssen ha scritto: Hoi, Do I understand correctly that you cannot have results showing labels for a given languages? Thanks, GerardM Hi Gerard, what do you mean? Are you

Re: [Wikidata-l] OpenStreetMap + Wikidata

2015-04-23 Thread Edward Betts
Here is my latest mapping between Wikidata items and OpenStreetMap objects: http://edwardbetts.com/osm-wikidata/2015-04-18/match_results/ I'm still working on debugging the mismatches, before uploading the data to OpenStreetMap: http://edwardbetts.com/osm-wikidata/2015-04-18/mismatches.html --

Re: [Wikidata-l] Auto-transliteration of names of humans

2015-04-23 Thread Erics wikiadres
Thanks for your reaction, Stas. I understand what your saying, but I think it's quite arbitrary to use English transliteration. In my opinion transliteration should be unbiased and impartial, like those international (ISO) standards are. Wikidata provides a possibility to enter national

Re: [Wikidata-l] items about data model concepts

2015-04-23 Thread Thomas Douillard
OK, I did not think it might confuse users, the label needs to be changed. It's of course not intended to use in statements which have no value, it's just an attempt to express wikibase data model in Wikidata. https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q16354757 is not Wikibase Data model :) I changed the

Re: [Wikidata-l] Auto-transliteration of names of humans

2015-04-23 Thread Amir Ladsgroup
Firstly, Note name of the thread, It's about transliterating names of humans, not transliterating in general, so translation doesn't make sense at all in this case. Secondly, I can transliterate names of Chinese people to Dutch or other Latin languages too, it will work well and it will have

Re: [Wikidata-l] items about data model concepts

2015-04-23 Thread Thomas Douillard
Hehe, we should picture this idea in help page :) https://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q1061035 https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q1061035 is not a pipe. 2015-04-23 9:50 GMT+02:00 Stas Malyshev smalys...@wikimedia.org: Hi! OK, I did not think it might confuse users, the label needs to be changed.

Re: [Wikidata-l] items about data model concepts

2015-04-23 Thread Lydia Pintscher
On Thu, Apr 23, 2015 at 11:33 AM, Gerard Meijssen gerard.meijs...@gmail.com wrote: Hoi, Sorry for being dense.. What is wrong with there being no value ? Having a no value is imho understanding only a complication of saying nothing... Why not say nothing in the first place ? It is important

Re: [Wikidata-l] items about data model concepts

2015-04-23 Thread Stas Malyshev
Hi! OK, I did not think it might confuse users, the label needs to be changed. Yes, I think it should made clear that it should not be used for actual values. It's of course not intended to use in statements which have no value, it's just an attempt to express wikibase data model in

Re: [Wikidata-l] items about data model concepts

2015-04-23 Thread Gerard Meijssen
Hoi, Sorry for being dense.. What is wrong with there being no value ? Having a no value is imho understanding only a complication of saying nothing... Why not say nothing in the first place ? Thanks, GerardM On 22 April 2015 at 21:52, Markus Krötzsch mar...@semantic-mediawiki.org wrote:

Re: [Wikidata-l] items about data model concepts

2015-04-23 Thread Thomas Douillard
Don't use Q19798647 The item is just a description of the concept ! on Wikidata, there is a way to set an unknow value to a claim. here is how to set this special value on a claim in the UI, in french : to https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Wikidata_pas_de_valeur.png You must click to the

Re: [Wikidata-l] items about data model concepts

2015-04-23 Thread Gerard Meijssen
Hoi, For me it is obvious ... this search for perfection is an enemy of what is good in Wikidata. It destroys the results of queries. It is not usable and it is only of use in a very small percentage of cases. Compare it with the female mayor question. Our issue is that we have not enough data in

Re: [Wikidata-l] items about data model concepts

2015-04-23 Thread Thomas Douillard
You should ask the people that are at this time developping it, and Lydia, how they will handle this. Because they will, it's in the Wikibase DataModel, the same as qualifiers. We will probably be provided with options on how we want to handle ranks, unknown values and so on when we will build a

Re: [Wikidata-l] items about data model concepts

2015-04-23 Thread Thomas Douillard
In wikidata, the absence of a claim about something cannot mean the claim has no couterpart in reality, as Wikidata is an will always be incomplete. For example if we have a series, maybe finished, maybe unfinished, we wil have claims that says: Episode 2 follows Episode 1 Episode 3 follows

Re: [Wikidata-l] items about data model concepts

2015-04-23 Thread Lydia Pintscher
Hey :) On Thu, Apr 23, 2015 at 11:46 AM, Jane Darnell jane...@gmail.com wrote: I think it is useful in the way you describe it, but I am curious how you would model the source B saying that X had no child Like this: https://www.wikidata.org/w/index.php?title=Q4115189oldid=212444514 Cheers

Re: [Wikidata-l] items about data model concepts

2015-04-23 Thread Gerard Meijssen
Hoi, A question about the example... does that second source really care about this and what do we do when we know this to be incorrect. It is bad enough to want to know about the sum of all knowledge, I do not care for present and past mistakes. Thanks, GerardM On 23 April 2015 at 12:15,

Re: [Wikidata-l] items about data model concepts

2015-04-23 Thread Thomas Douillard
You should read the helpages Gerard sometimes :) This is on the Wikidata plan since the beginning, it is usable since the beginning, and it will be queryable ... I really don't understand what bothers you. 2015-04-23 12:12 GMT+02:00 Gerard Meijssen gerard.meijs...@gmail.com: Hoi, For me it is

Re: [Wikidata-l] items about data model concepts

2015-04-23 Thread Jane Darnell
So the intention is to use Q19798647 as a random place holder specifically for Wikibase entities without a value, but not as a no value placeholder for a person? I think it is useful in the way you describe it, but I am curious how you would model the source B saying that X had no child On Thu,

Re: [Wikidata-l] items about data model concepts

2015-04-23 Thread Gerard Meijssen
Hoi, That does not clarify it. So what would we say ... it is in dispute sure but the way we work is that we have a child as a known person. So sources may dispute to their hearts content.. It is a relation that goes both ways.. How do we say novalue because it has to be a person ... John Doe does

Re: [Wikidata-l] items about data model concepts

2015-04-23 Thread Thomas Douillard
This is a question of point of vue and how to solves conflicted declaration, way larger than this. There could be disputes other who is really the father of something, this would be the same. such a statement in Wikidata means: * This source says that this person has no child * This (other)

Re: [Wikidata-l] Auto-transliteration of names of humans

2015-04-23 Thread Daniel Kinzler
Am 23.04.2015 um 09:05 schrieb Erics wikiadres: Wikidata provides a possibility to enter national standards Shchedrin (English), Sjtsjedrin (Dutch), Chtchedrin (French) and Schtschedrin (German) as aliases. So why not use the ISO-standard as the main form? Because there is no main form.

Re: [Wikidata-l] items about data model concepts

2015-04-23 Thread Markus Krötzsch
On 23.04.2015 12:25, Thomas Douillard wrote: This is a question of point of vue and how to solves conflicted declaration, way larger than this. There could be disputes other who is really the father of something, this would be the same. such a statement in Wikidata means: * This source says