I wouldn't mirror our node, way and relation objects in it though. Jo
2015-05-28 13:00 GMT+02:00 Cristian Consonni <[email protected]>: > Hi, > > 2015-05-28 12:42 GMT+02:00 Jo <[email protected]>: > > 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 >
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