On 27 September 2017 at 14:28, Lester Caine <[email protected]> wrote:
> wikidata provides a section which documents a range of LINKS which > identify the same object on other databases. It would be nice if there > was a stable identity on OSM that would populate an entry in THAT list. Indeed so, but OSM does not, nor is it likely to in the foreseeable future. > At some point it might be nice to eliminate all of the unnecessary links > like this in OSM if wikidata or somenewopesourcedata become a more > reliable source of such data. While it is not yet complete, in what way is Wikdiata failing to be sufficiently reliable? > Just a single link to a substantial set of additional data. That is exactly what Wikidata is for. -- Andy Mabbett @pigsonthewing http://pigsonthewing.org.uk _______________________________________________ talk mailing list [email protected] https://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk
