On 28 May 2015 at 10:41, Frederik Ramm <[email protected]> wrote: > I just hope that Wikidata doesn't list "New Brige" as > the "English name" of "Pont Neuf" or else they have a problem ;)
It alls it "Pont neuf": https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q335277 and has a property that tells you that that is its official name, which is in the French language. At some point, it will have a property that tells you that the name /means/ "New Bridge". > It is my impression that a large proportion of name:xx tags in OSM are > added by "naming specialists" who do little else than large scale name > additions; it would probably not be too much to ask for them to indulge > Wikidata instead of OSM. Please do! > if a mapper is of the > opinion that no matching Wikidata object exists for an OSM feature, then > they shouldn't use a wikidata tag, that much is clear! Or they could, if suitable, crate a WIkidata item... -- Andy Mabbett @pigsonthewing http://pigsonthewing.org.uk _______________________________________________ talk mailing list [email protected] https://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk

