[OSM-talk] Please be gentle with newbies

2020-03-03 Thread john whelan
These days I'm retired and use my old age pensioner bus pass to grab a free coffee. Often there are strings attached like a group of politicans or journalists etc. floating around. Today I got cornered by one who had been on the receiving end of a communication from a mapper saying they had made

[OSM-talk] The benefits of cross-linking OSM and Wikidata

2020-03-03 Thread Andy Mabbett
Some of you will remember, around five years ago, a debate about whether or not we should add Wikidata IDs to OSM. We did, and so here's "EqualStreetNames.Brussels", an example of what is now possible: https://equalstreetnames.brussels/en/index.html It shows streets in Brussels named after me