---------- Forwarded message ---------- From: Cristian Consonni <kikkocrist...@gmail.com> Date: Fri, 12 Sep 2014 11:45:05 +0200 Subject: [Wikitech-l] Developers wanted - OSMdata: a Wikidata-like editor for OpenStreetMap To: Wikimedia developers <wikitec...@lists.wikimedia.org>
Hello, I am forwarding this email to this list because I think this is a place where I may be able to find somebody interested with the required skills, sorry if this is not the case and/or this is not the right place. I would like to hear your fefedback (but please consider to use the discussion page on meta for that). Thanks, Cristian ---------- Forwarded message ---------- From: Cristian Consonni <kikkocrist...@gmail.com> Date: 2014-09-12 11:41 GMT+02:00 Subject: OSMdata: a Wikidata-like editor for OpenStreetMap To: OSM <t...@openstreetmap.org> Hi all The (long) discussion about importing Wikidata tags in OSM has prompted this idea into my mind: https://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/OSMdata I have also describe here in the IdeaLab on meta-wiki: https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Grants:IdeaLab/OSMdata:_a_Wikidata-like_editor_for_OpenStreetMap Here's a quick summary: == What == * using a MediaWiki + Wikibase - let's call it OSMdata[*] - install to host an item about every single object in OSM (following this schema Nxxx for nodes, Wxxx for ways, Rxxx for relations). * claims in a OSMdata page about an item map exactly to key, values pairs for the same object in OSM. * OSMdata is synchronized and kept up-to-date with the OSM database (read) * users can login in OSMdata with their OSM account and contribute, adding new claims this are saved back automatically in the OSM database (write) == Rationale == * it seems awesome (!) * the OSM community gains a new editor for OpenStreetMap, an editor which use a well known interface and which can get all the benefits of MediaWiki+Wikibase software development * Wikibase is tested at 60x its current scale * Wikibase is used in another big project Let me stress again that I see OSMdata as being an editor, not a repository for OSM, in fact I image in it to be a specialized editor to be used for editing tags. In my view the idea is to provide a well known interface to edit OSM (both manually and automatically with bots, using the same bot frameworks already available for editing Wikidata). I have described this idea in the talk-it malling list (in Italian) and a (at least conceptual) similarity has been pointed out towards the textual editor Level0[2]. I would like to know your opinion, and I would also like to set up some prototype with a small subset of the data. I tried to set up this myself but, unfortunately, I am blocked on the first obstacle, i.e.: how can I tell Wikibase to let me create items with names Nxxx, Wxxx and Rxxx instead of Qxxx? I do not know enough PHP (nor MediaWiki or Wikibase) to do this myself. Any help in this direction would be much appreciated. Ciao, Cristian [*] any reference to Wikidata is purely intentional [1] https://lists.openstreetmap.org/pipermail/talk-it/2014-September/044540.html _______________________________________________ Wikitech-l mailing list wikitec...@lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikitech-l -- Regards, T.Shrinivasan My Life with GNU/Linux : http://goinggnu.wordpress.com Free E-Magazine on Free Open Source Software in Tamil : http://kaniyam.com Get CollabNet Subversion Edge : http://www.collab.net/svnedge _______________________________________________ ILUGC Mailing List: http://www.ae.iitm.ac.in/mailman/listinfo/ilugc ILUGC Mailing List Guidelines: http://ilugc.in/mailinglist-guidelines