Re: [OSM-talk] name:etymology:wikidata

2015-07-31 Thread Jo
Since all the streets of The Netherlands already made their way into wikidata, I think it's reasonable to add other streets as well and indeed it's possible/desirable to say in wikidata what was named after something else. Wikidata is not Wikipedia, which indeed suffers from the problem that what

Re: [OSM-talk] name:etymology:wikidata

2015-07-31 Thread Lester Caine
On 31/07/15 17:47, Martin Koppenhoefer wrote: >> or you simply read the information in wikidata/wikipedia. > > given that even the street of the seven churches around here ("via delle > sette chiese") doesn't have its own WP/Wikidata article yet (although > referenced a lot, e.g. here: > https:

Re: [OSM-talk] name:etymology:wikidata

2015-07-31 Thread Sarah Hoffmann
On Fri, Jul 31, 2015 at 05:31:48PM +0200, Ruben Maes wrote: > 2015-07-31 17:21 GMT+02:00 Lester Caine : > > On 31/07/15 16:09, Jo wrote: > >> That's what is proposed here though: > >> http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Proposed_features/Wikidata > >> > >> And it keeps that particular wikidata tag n

Re: [OSM-talk] name:etymology:wikidata

2015-07-31 Thread Martin Koppenhoefer
sent from a phone > Am 31.07.2015 um 18:16 schrieb Lester Caine : > > or you simply read the information in wikidata/wikipedia. given that even the street of the seven churches around here ("via delle sette chiese") doesn't have its own WP/Wikidata article yet (although referenced a lot, e.

Re: [OSM-talk] name:etymology:wikidata

2015-07-31 Thread Lester Caine
On 31/07/15 16:35, Jo wrote: > Due to the fact that our ids are not stable, the only reasonable way to > add links between wikidata and OSM is to tag objects on our side. I > spent some time convincing the people at wikidata about this over a year > ago. I had thought it was obvious for OSM contrib

Re: [OSM-talk] name:etymology:wikidata

2015-07-31 Thread Ruben Maes
2015-07-31 17:31 GMT+02:00 Ruben Maes : > I'd say make a reference to the actual object is named after, not just > to 'church'. Although this might not always be clear. There is a street called Church Street near me and it has two churches. Which church is the street named after? Some historical r

Re: [OSM-talk] name:etymology:wikidata

2015-07-31 Thread Martin Koppenhoefer
sent from a phone > Am 31.07.2015 um 17:31 schrieb Ruben Maes : > > I'd say make a reference to the actual object is named after, not just > to 'church'. +1, if you then want all churches you can ask wikidata which of the tagged specific instances are churches. cheers Martin _

Re: [OSM-talk] name:etymology:wikidata

2015-07-31 Thread Jo
Due to the fact that our ids are not stable, the only reasonable way to add links between wikidata and OSM is to tag objects on our side. I spent some time convincing the people at wikidata about this over a year ago. I had thought it was obvious for OSM contributors. Polyglot 2015-07-31 17:21 GM

Re: [OSM-talk] name:etymology:wikidata

2015-07-31 Thread Ruben Maes
2015-07-31 17:21 GMT+02:00 Lester Caine : > On 31/07/15 16:09, Jo wrote: >> That's what is proposed here though: >> http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Proposed_features/Wikidata >> >> And it keeps that particular wikidata tag nicely together with the name >> when sorted alphabetically. > > I don't

Re: [OSM-talk] name:etymology:wikidata

2015-07-31 Thread Lester Caine
On 31/07/15 16:09, Jo wrote: > That's what is proposed here though: > http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Proposed_features/Wikidata > > And it keeps that particular wikidata tag nicely together with the name > when sorted alphabetically. I don't see any point loading our servers down with wikidat

Re: [OSM-talk] name:etymology:wikidata

2015-07-31 Thread Jo
That's what is proposed here though: http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Proposed_features/Wikidata And it keeps that particular wikidata tag nicely together with the name when sorted alphabetically. Jo 2015-07-31 17:01 GMT+02:00 Jochen Topf : > On Fr, Jul 31, 2015 at 04:27:05 +0200, Jo wrote: >

Re: [OSM-talk] name:etymology:wikidata

2015-07-31 Thread Jochen Topf
On Fr, Jul 31, 2015 at 04:27:05 +0200, Jo wrote: > I like to create bridges between projects, so now I was looking into the > name:etymology:wikidata tag. Whatever you do, do not use an abomination like "name:etymology:wikidata", because to a computer it looks like it is a "name"-Tag with the lang

[OSM-talk] name:etymology:wikidata

2015-07-31 Thread Jo
Hi, I like to create bridges between projects, so now I was looking into the name:etymology:wikidata tag. And I have a question about it. Say, you have a Rue de la Chapelle Rue de la Station I'd be inclined to make it point to the specific instance of chapel or station. The other possibility wo