On 28/05/2015, Martin Koppenhoefer <dieterdre...@gmail.com> wrote:
> Another issue that can be seen here: nobody will want this "Puente Nuevo
> (París)" as a label for a bridge on a map (París)
> Funny ah? Every single entity in wikidata I have looked at had some issues
> in one or the other way, I believe we would get more problems than we would
> solve.

The issue here is that these strings are the name of the wikipedia
article in various language, which is *not* the same as the name of
the location in various languages. Wikipedia likes to add some
disambiguation text, which we do not want in OSM.


On 27/05/2015, Andy Mabbett <a...@pigsonthewing.org.uk> wrote:
>    https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q84
>
> You can see its names in various languages by clicking the "Labels
> list" tab (then note slidebar)

Call me stupid, but I don't see any clickable label list tab ? The
closest thing I see is the list of wikipedia articles, which has the
problem mentioned above.

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