On 20 September 2017 at 00:56, Frederik Ramm <frede...@remote.org> wrote:
> On 09/19/2017 10:03 PM, Yuri Astrakhan wrote: >> I would like to auto-add all the >> corresponding wikidata based on wikipedia, for all remaining objects, >> using JOSM's "Fetch Wikidata IDs". > > If the Wikidata ID can be fetched automatically based on the Wikipedia > tag, can we delete the Wikipedia tags from everything that has Wikidata > afterwards because it is redundant? Technically, yes, but some in the community have objected to that being done. >> This way, we will be able to quickly find all the objects that are >> problematic with the Wikidata+OSM service. > > Adding problematic data to OSM in order to have it fixed is never a good > idea. That is not what is proposed. It will highlight bad data (Wikipedia links) that is *already* in OSM. >> For example, thanks to the >> community, we already fixed over 600 incorrect links to wiki >> disambiguations pages, > > But this would have been possible without importing the data first? Not as easily, nor as quickly. >> We will be >> able to fix when things are tagged as people (e.g. wikidata -> person, >> instead of subject:wikidata -> person), > > I don't understand; you say that you want to add the wikidata tag to OSM > and only afterwards can you find problems like this? Again, this is where OSM already has a bad Wikipedia link. >> find location errors (e.g. >> wikidata and OSM point to very different locations, implying that its an >> incorrect link). > > Again, OpenStreetMap is not a workbench for importing and then fixing > non-OSM data (even if it may look convenient). Please build a QA process > based on the un-imported data and import it once you have fixed the > problems. And again; this is for bad data that is already in OSM. -- Andy Mabbett @pigsonthewing http://pigsonthewing.org.uk _______________________________________________ talk mailing list talk@openstreetmap.org https://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk
