Hi, 2015-05-28 12:42 GMT+02:00 Jo <winfi...@gmail.com>: > I'm following discussions on several mailing lists and an idea is starting > to form to help solve some of our growing pains. > > I think it would be interesting to contemplate setting up our own instance > of WikiData. > > Wikidata could then link to entries in it and vice versa for the items which > are 1:1 matches. > > We could have dedicated entities for streets, for addresses, for PT stops > and their surroundings, for PT lines. > > From there we could link to objects in OSM. The problem with that is that > when ways become split the editor needs to decide whether the OSMdata link > is still valid. Same deal for merges. > > Of course, at the moment we use relations for some of these and we could > create new types of relations for others, but they are deemed too > complicated and they are rather fragile. Also the tendency seems to be to > abolish stuff like associatedStreet and simply go the way of repeating data > over and over. Or to say: do spatial queries and hope for the best. > > So, on the one hand I see it as a bridge to Wikidata, on the other I see it > as a way to solve some growing pains we're having to maintain more and more > data we're amassing.
I agree. this was my proposal from September last year: https://lists.openstreetmap.org/pipermail/talk/2014-September/070871.html Of course the editing/syncing part is difficult but maybe it can initially tried just as viewing tool. Another relevant link: https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Grants_talk:IdeaLab/OSMdata:_a_Wikidata-like_editor_for_OpenStreetMap C _______________________________________________ talk mailing list talk@openstreetmap.org https://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk