On 27 August 2014 21:37, SomeoneElse <li...@mail.atownsend.org.uk> wrote: > On 27/08/2014 17:47, Edward Betts wrote: >> >> I'd like to annotate these 70k objects in OSM with a Wikidata tag >> automatically. >> > > Perhaps it's worth explaining the benefits of having a link to a wikidata > item on an OSM item?
What, again? ;-) For example: Wikidata has data on each of these entiti which eitherisnt in OSM (who's the ayor of this town/ vicar of this church?) or which acts as a csanity check for what is in OSM (We can generate lists where the two disagree, for humans to check and fix). Wikidata has multi-lingual labels for many objects, which OSM renderers can fetch via the Wikidata link. What disadvantages do you forsee? > When this was discussed previously > > https://lists.openstreetmap.org/pipermail/talk-gb/2014-June/thread.html#16096 > > and > > https://lists.openstreetmap.org/pipermail/talk/2014-June/thread.html#70032 > > I think that it would be fair to describe the reaction as "somewhat > sceptical" (both to the potential benefits of adding the tags at all, and > around an automatic import of them). I think the issue raised have been addressed; which do you feel have not been? > an important part of things in OSM is surely that they are on-the-ground > verifiable - wikipedia has articles for villages in the UK that don't exist, > as do the OS OpenData StreetView maps, and people have added garbage data > from both to OSM. How do we know that the wikidata items for which links > are added are accurate? That sounds much like an edge case - a extreme-edge case, at that. How many such villages are mapped in OSM? Isn't that what needs fixing? -- Andy Mabbett @pigsonthewing http://pigsonthewing.org.uk _______________________________________________ talk mailing list talk@openstreetmap.org https://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk
