[OSM-talk] OpenStreetMap Awards 2019 Call for Nominees is open!

Hi folks, 'Tis that time of the year: only a week until SotM Call for Papers closes, and time to think not only of your talk, but to remember everybody who has inspired you over the past year. We are preparing the next installment of the OSM Awards: please help us collect a long list of peopl

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

Dear Roland, I understood well the idea about an external tool and its availability in the long run. It makes good sense. I would like just to mention that Wikipedia articles change their titles at the drop of a hat. Wikidata items also change sometimes, but I have never encountered it perso

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

Dear Andy, I would like to use a metaphor: If I had known that the captain of the Titanic considered the ship unsinkable then I had not boarded the ship. Not so much because I had been interested in the captain's belief but because believing to be unsinkable is way too little for a contingency p

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

On Thu, 18 Apr 2019 at 14:06, Oleksiy Muzalyev wrote: > I created the Wikidata item (and the Commons category) for > the medieval quarry Carrière Jaune (eng. Yellow Quarry): > > https://www.openstreetmap.org/way/158798757 > https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q62083763 > Via this Wikidata link people

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

On Thu, 18 Apr 2019 at 09:28, Frederik Ramm wrote: > The general mindset of the Wikidata adherent is At what point did we appoint you our spokesman? > that every > machine-readable link between obejcts or concepts improves the overall > quality and usefulness of the data set, whether or not a c

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): https://www.openstreetmap.o

Re: [OSM-talk] Stolpersteine - single monument or a monument type? (was Re: Bank of India (and other) Wikidata tags)

On Thu, 18 Apr 2019 at 07:48, Mateusz Konieczny wrote: >>> "wikipedia='de:Stolpersteine'", > I considered Stolpersteine as a monument type, not a single distributed > monument. > I would certainly consult German community before starting some sort of an > automatic > removal process Stolper

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] Bank of India (and other) Wikidata tags

Am 17.04.2019 um 22:03 schrieb Mateusz Konieczny: Among other popular wikipedia links "wikipedia='de:Stolpersteine'", "wikipedia='nl:Toeristisch Overstappunt'", are also clearly invalid, though here brand:wikipedia would be wrong and complete removal is probably necessary. Martin already comm

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] usefulness of brand:wikipedia and brand:wikidata tags (was Re: Bank of India (and other) Wikidata tags)

Apr 18, 2019, 12:05 AM by a...@pigsonthewing.org.uk: > On Wed, 17 Apr 2019 at 22:40, Mateusz Konieczny <> matkoni...@tutanota.com > > > wrote: > >> Note that almost always this tags are added based on name tag. >> > > Perhaps, but even then they can disambiguate

Re: [OSM-talk] Bank of India (and other) Wikidata tags

Apr 18, 2019, 12:02 AM by a...@pigsonthewing.org.uk: > On Wed, 17 Apr 2019 at 22:38, Mateusz Konieczny <> matkoni...@tutanota.com > > > wrote: > >> Apr 17, 2019, 11:19 PM by >> a...@pigsonthewing.org.uk >> >> : >> >> On Wed, 17