Andy are you now saying that it is OK to have 1 wikidata tag on each street, so someone can create an external list of streets with Wikidata ids to represent some kind of collection (like "all streets named after Leuven") ?
m. On Thu, Sep 28, 2017 at 10:53 AM, Andy Townsend <ajt1...@gmail.com> wrote: > On 28/09/2017 09:28, Jo wrote: >> >> >> All OSM objects with a name (in several languages) referring to a city. >> More zoomed in: >> http://overpass-turbo.eu/s/s20 >> > ... except that it isn't necessarily "all objects" - it's "a list of objects > in OSM manually curated by you". You're still going to have to monitor > changes to those objects and look for new instances of "objects named after > Leuven" in the real world and newly added to OSM. You happen to be using a > "name:etymology:wikidata" key in OSM to do this, but frankly you could keep > that list anywhere - it doesn't depend on "etymology" wikidata tags in OSM. > Many mappers (especially those with a first language that doesn't use many > Greek roots) will I suspect struggle with what "name:etymology:wikidata" > actually means. > > I'd have thought that this sort of "extra non-geographical information" was > better held outside of OSM, and then link back into OSM via e.g. > https://taginfo.openstreetmap.org/tags/wikidata=Q118958 or even > https://taginfo.openstreetmap.org/tags/wikipedia=nl%3ALeuven . > > I'm not saying that it isn't a great project - it's exactly the sort of > thing that many OSMers do for many different sorts of data. I'm just not > convinced that it depends on the ability to create more and more > unverifiable keys within OSM. > > Best Regards, > Andy > > > _______________________________________________ > talk mailing list > talk@openstreetmap.org > https://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk _______________________________________________ talk mailing list talk@openstreetmap.org https://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk
