Big thanks to Alex Lum for attending our hackathon, which focused on Wikidata, Query and Open Street Map. Details here: http://dldsc.team/2016/11/02/the-hackathon-commons-to-wikidata-to-open-street-maps/
On Wed, Oct 12, 2016 at 6:20 PM, Alex Sims <[email protected]> wrote: > I’ve got a foot in both Wikipedia and OpenStreetmap camps and for the > purposes of conflating the geodata and maintaining , it is much easier to > have either a common unique identifier that identifies each object such as > some national identifier from “List of Nationally Culturally Important > Properties”, and insert into both WikiPedia and OpenStreetmap. > > For this case the next best solution is to link both ways i.e.: > > Openstreetmap: use the wikipedia:key https://wiki. > openstreetmap.org/wiki/Key:wikipedia or the wikidata key https://wiki. > openstreetmap.org/wiki/Key:wikidata when it moves beyond “defacto” status > or better. > > Wikipedia/Wikidata: use a key that points to the OpenStreetmap object, be > it a node, way, area or polygon e.g. http://www.openstreetmap. > org/node/1253343627 > > However according to https://wiki.openstreetmap. > org/wiki/Collaboration_with_Wikipedia the current practice is to link > from Wikipedia back to a geo-coordinate, that would work as well, just a > bit more effort if it’s not an exact match as any checking routine needs to > allow for a bit of error. > > This way it is reasonably possible to keep both aligned and join (in the > database sense) the information in both directions without having to put in > a huge amount of effort into comparing the two data sets > > Alex > > > On 12 Oct 2016, at 3:39 PM, Leigh Blackall <[email protected]> > wrote: > > I Sam, thanks for the reply. Sorry for my delay coming back. > >> I think tourism=artwork >> <http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Tag:tourism%3Dartwork> is the most >> widely-used tag in OSM (corresponds to Q838948 >> <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q838948>, "work of art"), here's an >> example:http://www.openstreetmap.org/node/1253343627 and the most common >> other attributes used with it >> <https://taginfo.openstreetmap.org/tags/?key=tourism&value=artwork#combinations> >> . >> > Thanks. In your example, "Mister Push It" doesn't have much in the way of > data or content linked to the OSM entry. I couldn't find an en.Wikipedia or > Wikidata entry for it either.. is what I'm imagining possible? - to embed > Wikipedia content, or Wikimedia Commons media into the OSM entry, either > directly or via Wikidata? > > > > _______________________________________________ > Wikimediaau-l mailing list > [email protected] > https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimediaau-l > > -- -- Leigh Blackall <http://about.me/leighblackall> +61(0)404561009
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