Re: [OSM-talk] Can wikidata links help fight name inflation?

2015-05-28 Thread David Cuenca Tudela
I have one general question. Some OSM relations contain a link to a Wikidata item. For those relations, would it be possible to automatically import the names in several languages and do so in a way that changes in OSM also change Wikidata? Thanks, Micru On Thu, May 28, 2015 at 6:37 PM,

Re: [OSM-talk] SotM-US

2015-05-27 Thread David Cuenca Tudela
Great that you are going there Andy, and thanks for your efforts for bringing Wikidata and OSM closer together! Cheers, Micru On Wed, May 27, 2015 at 10:43 PM, Andy Mabbett a...@pigsonthewing.org.uk wrote: Are any other UK folk going to SotM-US? I've just booked my ticket, and am givng two

Re: [OSM-talk] Can wikidata links help fight name inflation?

2015-05-27 Thread David Cuenca Tudela
It would be great to have a dedicated wikibase install just for geographic names, like GeoNames but part of openstreetmap. Such database can be linked to Wikidata and then you can also have items for every geographic object. I guess it is hard to make it happen, otherwise it would be done