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2015-03-10 15:37 GMT+01:00 aude <aude.w...@gmail.com>: > On Tue, Mar 10, 2015 at 2:31 PM, Amir E. Aharoni < > amir.ahar...@mail.huji.ac.il> wrote: > >> Hi, >> >> [ Aude and Christian Consonni, this should especially interest you. ] >> >> I was throwing around ideas with a friend about how OpenStreetMap could >> be integrated with Wikidata. >> >> The thing that I care the most in any software is internationalization. >> Having a map in which all labels of towns, streets and everything else is >> translated to all languages sounds like a super-wonderful thing. >> >> Wikidata allows labeling everything, translating everything, and >> attaching properties to everything, so it sounds like it could be a good >> match. >> >> But then the question of "what IS everything" came up. Wikidata was >> created mostly with Wikipedia in mind, so Wikipedia's notability policies >> influenced Wikidata. Roughly, Wikidata has items for every thing about >> which there is, or can be, a Wikipedia article and for things that are >> useful, or if it "fulfills some structural need >> <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Notability>". >> >> Towns obviously have or can a Wikipedia article about them, but probably >> not every street or shop. >> > > At minimum, supporting Wikivoyage is within scope of Wikidata, so imho > items for shops would be ok. (at least the ones that would be used in > Wikivoyage) > > I am not sure about streets... maybe, it depends and is up to the > community (what extent we want them) and scalability (technical and > community) might be considerations. As well, in Wikidata, we want > references. > > For the OSM use case, for streets, I think the osm name tags are > sufficient. Transliteration of street names definitely makes sense, but > maybe can be autogenerated? > > In some cases multilingual (e.g. in Brussels), actual translations might > be desired, and think osm supports that adequately. > > Katie > > > >> But do they fulfill a structural need or is it way too much? >> >> If it's way too much, how can this be bridged, or federated, or whatever >> the current popular word is? I don't even know exactly how does OSM store >> labels and translations now, but it sounds like another instance of >> Wikibase, if not Wikidata itself, can be used for it. >> >> I don't have much to add, but I'd love to hear ideas from people who do >> (again, Aude and Christian Consonni, I'm looking at you :) ). >> >> -- >> Amir Elisha Aharoni · אָמִיר אֱלִישָׁע אַהֲרוֹנִי >> http://aharoni.wordpress.com >> “We're living in pieces, >> I want to live in peace.” – T. Moore >> >> _______________________________________________ >> Wikidata-l mailing list >> Wikidata-l@lists.wikimedia.org >> https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikidata-l >> >> > > > -- > @wikimediadc / @wikidata > > _______________________________________________ > Wikidata-l mailing list > Wikidata-l@lists.wikimedia.org > https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikidata-l > >
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