Just added a few wikipedia (and wikidata) tags to my home town (and discovered that we have a local nature reserve!!).
Does anyone fancy writing a short blog post about the benefits of wikipedia/wikidata tags and a screen shot of this map (with a quick how to guide)? If you email it to me I will publish it on mappa-mercia.org Rob On 18 August 2014 18:12, Brian <br...@mappa-mercia.org> wrote: > Hi Andy > I tagged what I thought was the whole area rather than just one building. > Perhaps the building name should be removed and the multipolygon have its > name expanded? > Ryes > Brian > > Sent from my iPhone > > On 17 Aug 2014, at 23:05, Andy Mabbett <a...@pigsonthewing.org.uk> wrote: > > > On 17 August 2014 17:07, Brian Prangle <bpran...@gmail.com> wrote: > > > >> I've spent an hour tagging ways and nodes in Solihull. I started on the > main > >> wikipedia page for Solihull and then followed all the relevant links. > I'll > >> continue for Solihull - it's probably easier to try and complete this LA > >> area as there'll be fewer wikipedia articles. Probably complete it by > Xmas > >> - if you want to use it as a case study Andy. It makes a welcome change > from > >> existing mapping projects > > > > Brian, that's a great start, thank you. > > > >> There were a couple of multipolygons that required tagging (BHX and NEC) > > > > Those are interesting, I see that the relation you tagged for the > > latter has the name "NEC". > > > > There's also: > > > > https://www.openstreetmap.org/way/31644931#map=15/52.4538/-1.7192 > > > > which is a building, and has the name "National Exhibition Centre", in > > full. How did you decide which to tag? > > > > In discussions of automating these tags, we've looked at tagging like > > objects; so whatever has "amenity=exhibition centre" or > > "amenity=airport" (or whatever the applicable values are) > > > >> Tag data for the West Mids: from ITOworld so it doesn't count nodes > >> > >> wikipedia 209 > >> wikipedia:en 3 > >> wikidata 20 > > > > I wonder why there are so many more Wikipedia than Wikidata? > > > >> There's also a smattering of wikipedia :architect :artist :subject > > > > That's nice to see; again, they could use Wikidata, but that's not > crucial. > > > > > > -- > > Andy Mabbett > > @pigsonthewing > > http://pigsonthewing.org.uk > > > > _______________________________________________ > > Talk-gb-westmidlands mailing list > > Talk-gb-westmidlands@openstreetmap.org > > https://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk-gb-westmidlands > > _______________________________________________ > Talk-gb-westmidlands mailing list > Talk-gb-westmidlands@openstreetmap.org > https://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk-gb-westmidlands >
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