Hi,
Shouldn't OSM use Wikipedia URLs as UUIDs where applicable rather than
Wikipedia referring to database identifiers? (The answer is a clear
'yes' from my side.)
In fact there are the (wikipedia, *) tags - but not sure how good the
quality is - what can be seen on a first glance is, that people mix URLs
and article names, and also encoding.
Cheers,
Claus
On 05/04/2013 01:34 AM, Jason Remillard wrote:
Hi,
In general is seems like it might be useful to have some kind of
somewhat permanent URL to an element inside of OSM. However, given
what exists today shouldn't Wikipedia be using the overpass API for
referencing OSM?
Thanks
Jason.
On Fri, May 3, 2013 at 6:46 PM, Paul Norman <penor...@mac.com> wrote:
From: andrzej zaborowski [mailto:balr...@gmail.com]
Sent: Friday, May 03, 2013 2:08 PM
To: Frederik Ramm
Cc: OpenStreetMap
Subject: Re: [OSM-talk] OSM relation ID property in Wikidata
I am less concerned about the Wikidata side - if they make a bad
judgement then it is their mess to clean up. I am however concerned
that if more people simply assume that the status quo is there to stay
("IDs are stable enough"), this will put pressure on *us* and limit
our flexibility in the future.
The OSMF has sent a pretty strong message saying that object IDs are
stable enough to base impactful legal decisions on them. It will look
silly for them to go back to the stance that IDs aren't stable after
all.
There's two sides to ID stability. One is stability during software or data
model changes and the other is stability during normal mapping. Frederik's
post was concerned more with the former.
The latter is more complicated. Because the original message linked to
London, it's worth pointing out that a few admin relations did get new IDs
in the redaction process for technical reasons and that periodically
relations get given new IDs because old large complex relations don't
interact well with the /history call.
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