Hi Edward, any updates on your project? As said before, I would love to see some test imports. Am 24.11.2014 um 12:28 schrieb Edward Betts: > It has been suggested that I shouldn't be using Wikipedia at all, instead I > should be looking at the 'instance of' property in Wikidata. Using English > Wikipedia introduces an English-language bias, there are items in Wikidata > without an associated article in English Wikipedia. The reason for using > Wikipedia Categories is because use of the 'instance of' property is very > patchy. The majority of the items in my result list don't include the > 'instance of' property. A related piece of work will be to populate this > field in Wikidata, but for now I'm focused on linking OSM and Wikidata. Did you already start on this side? > There are already 25k things with a Wikidata tag in OSM. When I compare this > list with my generated list I find 2,000 cases where a given Wikidata ID is > assigned to a different OSM object from the one picked by my system. In > addition there are 26 OSM objects with a wikidata tag pointing at a different > Wikidata item. By now there are arround 26k things. Give it a boost to 30k ;-), in a well defined area. So people can evaluate. > Many of these mismatches are villages, towns and municipalities in Germany. > One possible way to solve this is if I exclude settlements in Germany from my > list. It looks like Germany doesn't need an automated import of Wikidata tags. Why are they mismatching? Maybe we can fix it.
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