Putting notes on every object armcahir mappers: keep away is just as
redundant and less informative than a source tag. I don't like all those
source tags, but it addresses a real problem.
I meant to say: add a note=* tag explaining the situation. Otherwise it
indeed wouldn't help, but when
On 30 June 2014 14:30, Pieren pier...@gmail.com wrote:
the wikipedia key is still human readable
where the wikidata is just an encrypted interdatabase foreign key.
A Wikidata ID is part of a URL and can be rendered as such; for
example, Q173882 equates to https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q173882
2014-06-30 23:17 GMT+02:00 Tod Fitch t...@fitchdesign.com:
My issue with source:whatever=* tags is that you need one for every tag to
avoid confusion about what the source for a specific tag is and it is a
manual entry prone to error.
+1, and one for every node (e.g. of a way). Many mappers
2014-07-01 0:11 GMT+02:00 John Packer john.pack...@gmail.com:
(I'm not sure if OSM Messaging is built-in in JOSM, but it could be useful
for quick messaging in this kind of case).
there is a link: if you hit ctrl+h you'll get the versions of the selected
object with clickable usernames.
On Tue, Jul 1, 2014 at 4:42 PM, Andy Mabbett a...@pigsonthewing.org.uk wrote:
A Wikidata ID is part of a URL and can be rendered as such; for
example, Q173882 equates to https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q173882
It was said at the beginning that wikidata or wikipedia tags will
never replace OSM
2014-07-01 17:40 GMT+02:00 Pieren pier...@gmail.com:
Why should we accept one and not the others. Where
is the breaking point ?
I think the distinction to be made is whether the linked database is public
and available under an open license.
cheers,
Martin
On 01.07.2014 17:40, Pieren wrote:
It was said at the beginning that wikidata or wikipedia tags will
never replace OSM tags but now I see counter examples or duplicates of
what is already there (like on this scary proposal for the operator,
architect, brand, artist, subject, name etymology
On 1 July 2014 16:40, Pieren pier...@gmail.com wrote:
On Tue, Jul 1, 2014 at 4:42 PM, Andy Mabbett a...@pigsonthewing.org.uk
wrote:
A Wikidata ID is part of a URL and can be rendered as such; for
example, Q173882 equates to https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q173882
It was said at the beginning
On 01.07.2014 18:08, Tobias Knerr wrote:
OSM is open for all new tags. Once we admit wikidata references, what
would prevent someone to add the MusicBrainz or freebase.com reference
directly in OSM ? Why should we accept one and not the others. Where
is the breaking point ?
Technically, we
On 01.07.2014 18:08, Tobias Knerr wrote:
OSM is open for all new tags. Once we admit wikidata references, what
would prevent someone to add the MusicBrainz or freebase.com reference
directly in OSM ? Why should we accept one and not the others. Where
is the breaking point ?
Technically, we
On Wed, Jul 2, 2014 at 2:48 AM, yvecai yve...@gmail.com wrote:
I would find more logical to make links between databases with queries
rather by adding external references in one or the other. The later looks
like the poor man job (oversimplifying, I don't want to put down the great
job done
On 01.07.2014 21:04, Eugene Alvin Villar wrote:
I disagree. If the goal is to make separate databases function as one
big normalized database[1] such that there is no overlap in data, then
these inter-database references are, in fact, necessary.
I must admit, when I read 'big normalized
Am 7/1/14 20:48 , schrieb yvecai:
but no content
Maybe not directly to OSM, but definitely to the maps you can make out
of it.
http://osm.lyrk.de/wappen/
I think this is a much better solution than upldating all those image
links in OSM. And if you want to have them in OpenStreetMap you
On 01.07.2014 21:56, Andreas Goss wrote:
Am 7/1/14 20:48 , schrieb yvecai:
but no content
Maybe not directly to OSM, but definitely to the maps you can make out
of it.
http://osm.lyrk.de/wappen/
I think this is a much better solution than upldating all those image
links in OSM. And if
then search wikimedia commons for flags with the corresponding name.
Which is going to fail, because there are names that exist more than
once and always the risk of different spellings, especially in different
languages.
Also Wiki commons often does not care that much about creating
I've been experimenting with Wikidata a bit. I'm not a Wikipedian, rather a
convinced Openstreetmapper. One of the problems I had with Wiktionary and
Wikipedia is how data is duplicated over and over again. Wikidata finally
started solving that.
We should take advantage from that.
Here are some
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