On 05/27/2015 05:13 PM, Frederik Ramm wrote:
We are a database of geodata [...]
Would it not be better to record the wikidata link for London, and
then (perhaps in co-operation with people at Wikidata) provide means
for people doing map rendering to join OSM data with a
separately-loaded translation table from Wikidata?
Would this be restricted to just names?
I can imagine a world where no information about businesses is stored in
OSM. OSM has a geometry and a wikidata link. Wikidata says what kind of
business it is, what its name is, what its contact info it, what its
opening hours are, etc.
That would be a very different world from the one we live in. In lieu of
listing them all out, I will just say I can see many benefits to living
in that world, and many benefits to what we have now.
Is that a goal of this integration?
I've been thinking about this for a while, so I have a lot of questions
based on the answer...
--Andrew
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