Doesn't seem to work anyways: When I tried to commit 9 items I knew were right it just sticks at: opening changeset
On Thu, Jun 8, 2017 at 6:03 AM, Christoph Hormann <o...@imagico.de> wrote: > 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 > -- 外に遊びに行こう！
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