Due to the fact that our ids are not stable, the only reasonable way to add links between wikidata and OSM is to tag objects on our side. I spent some time convincing the people at wikidata about this over a year ago. I had thought it was obvious for OSM contributors.
Polyglot 2015-07-31 17:21 GMT+02:00 Lester Caine <les...@lsces.co.uk>: > On 31/07/15 16:09, Jo wrote: > > That's what is proposed here though: > > http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Proposed_features/Wikidata > > > > And it keeps that particular wikidata tag nicely together with the name > > when sorted alphabetically. > > I don't see any point loading our servers down with wikidata content. If > you want the data that goes with a 'wikidata=*' entry then simply ask > wikidata for it. Same with wikipedia and other data sources. If you want > a sorted list get wikidata to provide it ... > > -- > Lester Caine - G8HFL > ----------------------------- > Contact - http://lsces.co.uk/wiki/?page=contact > L.S.Caine Electronic Services - http://lsces.co.uk > EnquirySolve - http://enquirysolve.com/ > Model Engineers Digital Workshop - http://medw.co.uk > Rainbow Digital Media - http://rainbowdigitalmedia.co.uk > > _______________________________________________ > talk mailing list > talk@openstreetmap.org > https://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk >
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