Re: [OSM-talk] uselessness of brand:wikipedia and brand:wikidata tags (was Re: Bank of India (and other) Wikidata tags)

Hi, I agree that adding tons of links with a script is not a good idea. However, there are cases where a wikidata tag could be useful. For example, I created the Wikidata item (and the Commons category) for the medieval quarry Carrière Jaune (eng. Yellow Quarry):

Re: [OSM-talk] uselessness of brand:wikipedia and brand:wikidata tags (was Re: Bank of India (and other) Wikidata tags)

Hi, On 17.04.19 23:40, Mateusz Konieczny wrote: > I am not aware about even single case where brand:wikipedia > or brand:wikidata is useful. The general mindset of the Wikidata adherent is that every machine-readable link between obejcts or concepts improves the overall quality and usefulness of

Re: [OSM-talk] uselessness of brand:wikipedia and brand:wikidata tags (was Re: Bank of India (and other) Wikidata tags)

Can you link some of this real, actually used uses? Or even better - add them to https://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Key:brand:wikidata ? At this moment https://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Key:brand:wikidata

Re: [OSM-talk] uselessness of brand:wikipedia and brand:wikidata tags (was Re: Bank of India (and other) Wikidata tags)

Interestingly enough, FOSS4G San Digeo where I was just attending has had several talks about wikidata IDs usfulness in OSM... Also, AFAIK, mapbox is using WD in brands to do their searches for POIs, as that is much easier to consume than names. OpenMapTiles have discussed wikidata ids at length,

[OSM-talk] uselessness of brand:wikipedia and brand:wikidata tags (was Re: Bank of India (and other) Wikidata tags)

Apr 17, 2019, 11:19 PM by a...@pigsonthewing.org.uk: > On Wed, 17 Apr 2019 at 21:03, Mateusz Konieczny <> matkoni...@tutanota.com > > > wrote: > >> Though, if we are lucky this mistake was added by an undiscussed >> automated edit and may be simply reverted. >>