Re: [OSM-talk] OSM relation ID property in Wikidata

2013-05-04 Thread Andreas Labres
Tim, There are problems with WIWOSM that aren't solved at all... Example: Historic monuments in Austria. They are all covered in Wikipedia, but mostly only in Lists. And they do have a distinguishable objectID, but I can't really state this in OSM. For instance: http://www.openstreetmap.org/bro

Re: [OSM-talk] OSM relation ID property in Wikidata

2013-05-04 Thread malenki
On 04.05.2013 15:24, Paul Norman wrote: > When I get new imagery for the area and re-trace the > building depending on what is easiest I may end up creating a new way. The tool "replace geometry" exists - at least for JOSM. It even works on "replacing" an old (existing) Node for a new way. ___

Re: [OSM-talk] OSM relation ID property in Wikidata

2013-05-04 Thread Paul Norman
> From: Mike [mailto:mike.cuttl...@gmail.com] > Sent: Saturday, May 04, 2013 1:36 PM > To: talk@openstreetmap.org > Subject: Re: [OSM-talk] OSM relation ID property in Wikidata > > > I am however concerned that > > if more people simply assume that the status quo is there to stay > ("IDs > are

Re: [OSM-talk] OSM relation ID property in Wikidata

2013-05-04 Thread Mike
> I am however concerned that > if more people simply assume that the status quo is there to stay ("IDs > are stable enough"), this will put pressure on *us* and limit our > flexibility in the future. But, what is the point if ID's are not stable? How can we externally link to the data and make

Re: [OSM-talk] OSM relation ID property in Wikidata

2013-05-04 Thread Kolossos
Hello, as co-creator of WIWOSM I was also against this Wikidata-property, but I came too late. WIWOSM links are not only more stable and human-readable, the are also much more flexible. So in WIWOSM we can suport relations but also multirelations, ways, multiways nodes, multinodes. I'm waiting

Re: [OSM-talk] OSM relation ID property in Wikidata

2013-05-04 Thread Shaun McDonald
On 4 May 2013, at 10:47, Andrew Gray wrote: > On 4 May 2013 00:49, Claus Stadler wrote: >> Hi, >> >> Shouldn't OSM use Wikipedia URLs as UUIDs where applicable rather than >> Wikipedia referring to database identifiers? (The answer is a clear 'yes' >> from my side.) >> In fact there are the (w

Re: [OSM-talk] OSM relation ID property in Wikidata

2013-05-04 Thread Claus Stadler
Hi, >> Wikidata entities are (with a few caveats) static and language-independent (eg https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q3183), and could potentially be useful here I totally agree, so tagging OSM entities with Wikidata IDs (where applicable) might improve the stability even beyond that of using

[OSM-talk] convert gpx track to list of ways

2013-05-04 Thread Timo Harter
Hi, i have gpx tracks and would like to find out which ways make up the traveled route. So from the gpx input, i would like to get a list of ways maybe in the form ", , " for each way segment that is part of the route. Are there any tools available that can be used for that? Thanks, Timo _

Re: [OSM-talk] Replication down?

2013-05-04 Thread Grant Slater
Hi, Fixed now. We had a database server outage for a few hours in the early morning. / Grant On 4 May 2013 07:59, Roland Olbricht wrote: > Dear all, > > http://planet.openstreetmap.org/replication/minute/ > got stuck at 02:17 UTC. Can somebody please look what has happened? > > Cheers, > > Rola

Re: [OSM-talk] OSM relation ID property in Wikidata

2013-05-04 Thread Andrew Gray
On 4 May 2013 00:49, Claus Stadler wrote: > Hi, > > Shouldn't OSM use Wikipedia URLs as UUIDs where applicable rather than > Wikipedia referring to database identifiers? (The answer is a clear 'yes' > from my side.) > In fact there are the (wikipedia, *) tags - but not sure how good the > quality

Re: [OSM-talk] OSM relation ID property in Wikidata

2013-05-04 Thread Martin Raifer
Jason Remillard wrote: However, given what exists today shouldn't Wikipedia be using the overpass API for referencing OSM? I'd also say so: There already is a "Permanent ID" [1] service. http://overpass-api.de/api/interpreter?data=[out:custom];rel[boundary=administrative][admin_level=6][name

[OSM-talk] Replication down?

2013-05-04 Thread Roland Olbricht
Dear all, http://planet.openstreetmap.org/replication/minute/ got stuck at 02:17 UTC. Can somebody please look what has happened? Cheers, Roland ___ talk mailing list talk@openstreetmap.org http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk