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

2013-05-11 Thread malenki
colliar wrote: > >You did replace a way with a way but not a node with a way ! Of course. It should be obvious that the ID of a node cannot be transformed into the ID of a way. Using "replace geometry" on a existing node and a new way is the easiest way to make the existing node part of the new w

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

2013-05-11 Thread colliar
On 11.05.2013 04:19, malenki wrote: > colliar wrote: > >> Am 05.05.2013 05:26, schrieb malenki: >> >>> The tool "replace geometry" exists - at least for JOSM. It even works >>> on "replacing" an old (existing) Node for a new way. >> >> Yes it is a nice tool but it only does include the node in the

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

2013-05-10 Thread malenki
colliar wrote: >Am 05.05.2013 05:26, schrieb malenki: > >> The tool "replace geometry" exists - at least for JOSM. It even works >> on "replacing" an old (existing) Node for a new way. > >Yes it is a nice tool but it only does include the node in the new way. > >E.g. you still have a new object re

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

2013-05-07 Thread THEVENON Julien
> De : Mike > I guess you are all both right and wrong on this matter and thus because > you are loking from single angle only. > [...] > If object is split, one part preserves existing ID and other parts are > considered as new objects with new ID's assigned. Hi I quite agree with Mike. P

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

2013-05-07 Thread Mike
I guess you are all both right and wrong on this matter and thus because you are loking from single angle only. I recognize several different needs: External link to coordinates This is simply link to specific geographic coordinates. As it is not necessarily that there is an object on this c

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

2013-05-07 Thread Peter Wendorff
Am 07.05.2013 12:56, schrieb Stefan Keller: > 2013/5/7 Peter Wendorff : >> you would not delete the whole object and add a new object with the >> building tag alone, right? > > I said that it's up to the mapper to decide - as its common in OSM. > External services which link to this object through

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

2013-05-07 Thread Stefan Keller
2013/5/7 Peter Wendorff : > you would not delete the whole object and add a new object with the > building tag alone, right? I said that it's up to the mapper to decide - as its common in OSM. External services which link to this object through the permanent id have to cope with this. Yours, Stef

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

2013-05-07 Thread Jo
Say the supermarket downsizes and the other half of the building becomes used by another company. We split the building, creating 1 new building, glued to the original building. Now there is a 50% chance the existing building outline continues as the supermarket and 50% it's the new company continu

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

2013-05-07 Thread Peter Wendorff
Unfortunately I'm too busy to investigate how much elements in OSM change their meaning instead of deleting the old and creating the new object. In addition your "fooling the concept" is not correct. If a supermarket is abandoned, and was tagged as a building + name + shop=supermarket, you would n

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

2013-05-07 Thread Christian Quest
I'm not proposing to add this as a new tag to OSM objects, but to use these geoURL in external datasets instead of OSM IDs. It is a way to keep a (fuzzy) link between datasets. Fuzzyness seems mandatory at some level as I doubt it is possible to have an exact match between data models that are co

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

2013-05-07 Thread Stefan Keller
2013/5/7 Peter Wendorff : > Look what happens in OSM all the time: POIs are moved slightly to match > aerial images - following your definition that should be another ID now No, That's one of the nice properties of ids without coordinates! To me it would remain the same - except when a tool or the

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

2013-05-07 Thread Stefan Keller
2013/5/7 Christian Quest : > Linking to OSM objet ID looks like a bad idea because they are not stable. Agreed. > I've proposed something that can be summarized like some generic > geoURL that could be used to describe something/somewhere in the form > something@somewhere Am I understanding you

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

2013-05-07 Thread Peter Wendorff
Am 07.05.2013 09:58, schrieb Stefan Keller: > Hi, > > You wrote: >> - it's roughly in that bounding box (e.g. the city or a given part of > > A soon as you use the word "roughly" - the id approach is doomed to fail. > According to OO and database technology an id is a well-defined > surrogate wit

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

2013-05-07 Thread Stefan Keller
Hi, You wrote: > - it's roughly in that bounding box (e.g. the city or a given part of A soon as you use the word "roughly" - the id approach is doomed to fail. According to OO and database technology an id is a well-defined surrogate with a well-defined data type. Yours, Stefan 2013/5/7 Peter

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

2013-05-07 Thread Christian Quest
Linking to OSM objet ID looks like a bad idea because they are not stable. We had a recent long talk on talk-fr@ about permanent IDs that could help linking external data to OSM, instead of multiplying ref:xxx in OSM to link to external data. I've proposed something that can be summarized like so

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

2013-05-07 Thread Peter Wendorff
Am 07.05.2013 09:43, schrieb Stefan Keller: > Hi, > > All use cases you describe are valid. It's up to the users of OSM > permanent id to keep track of changing OSM ids - it's an offer of OSM. > The only constraint I would propose is to avoid to delete and recreate > a new id only because of a too

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

2013-05-07 Thread Stefan Keller
Hi, All use cases you describe are valid. It's up to the users of OSM permanent id to keep track of changing OSM ids - it's an offer of OSM. The only constraint I would propose is to avoid to delete and recreate a new id only because of a tool (like an editor) likes to do it like this. The concep

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

2013-05-07 Thread Peter Wendorff
Am 07.05.2013 00:47, schrieb Tobias Knerr: > Am 06.05.2013 23:55, schrieb Peter Wendorff: >> Am 06.05.2013 23:07, schrieb andrzej zaborowski: >>> If you're not adding those historical entities to OSM (or a similar >>> database like that historical osm once discussed) then there's no >>> issue with

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

2013-05-07 Thread Peter Wendorff
Hi. Do you have any idea how this permanent ID could look like? You dislike the overpass-approach (and yes, it's far from perfect). What is your idea how a stable permanent ID to an object may be achieved? Let's use a shop as an example (and wikidata as the foreign database as an example, too).

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

2013-05-06 Thread Tobias Knerr
Am 06.05.2013 23:55, schrieb Peter Wendorff: > Am 06.05.2013 23:07, schrieb andrzej zaborowski: >> If you're not adding those historical entities to OSM (or a similar >> database like that historical osm once discussed) then there's no >> issue with linking to Wikidata because there's nothing to be

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

2013-05-06 Thread Stefan Keller
Hi, I also think that linking from an OSM object to a growing no. of external databases (incl. Wikipedia/Wikidata) is not a good idea. And I respect the wish of the OSM maintainers to change the OSM id in the future. But the overpass-permanent-osm-id is no solution neither, primo because a set of

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

2013-05-06 Thread Peter Wendorff
Am 06.05.2013 23:07, schrieb andrzej zaborowski: > Hi, > > On 6 May 2013 21:20, Peter Wendorff wrote: >> Am 06.05.2013 20:26, schrieb Tobias Knerr: >>> On 06.05.2013 18:54, Peter Wendorff wrote: >>> >>> [...] Let's see this example: A building that was a merchants kontor a few hundret y

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

2013-05-06 Thread andrzej zaborowski
Hi, On 6 May 2013 21:20, Peter Wendorff wrote: > Am 06.05.2013 20:26, schrieb Tobias Knerr: >> On 06.05.2013 18:54, Peter Wendorff wrote: >> >> [...] >>> Let's see this example: A building that was a merchants kontor a few >>> hundret years ago, and now contains a museum and a restaurant, while i

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

2013-05-06 Thread Peter Wendorff
Am 06.05.2013 20:26, schrieb Tobias Knerr: > On 06.05.2013 18:54, Peter Wendorff wrote: > > [...] >> Let's see this example: A building that was a merchants kontor a few >> hundret years ago, and now contains a museum and a restaurant, while in >> between it was - let's say - a hospital). > > Tha

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

2013-05-06 Thread Tobias Knerr
On 06.05.2013 20:36, Eugene Alvin Villar wrote: > For those who are not on the tagging mailing list, the wikidata=* tag > has been proposed[1], and discussed on the tagging mailing list starting > late February 2013[2]. Based on my assessment of the discussion, there > doesn't seem to be a clamor t

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

2013-05-06 Thread Eugene Alvin Villar
On Tue, May 7, 2013 at 2:26 AM, Tobias Knerr wrote: > On 06.05.2013 18:54, Peter Wendorff wrote: > > Do they have something like a persistent ID in wikidata, yet? > > I think the Wikidata page title - something like Q35525 - is intended to > be rather stable. Of course there are sometimes problem

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

2013-05-06 Thread Tobias Knerr
On 06.05.2013 18:54, Peter Wendorff wrote: > Do they have something like a persistent ID in wikidata, yet? I think the Wikidata page title - something like Q35525 - is intended to be rather stable. Of course there are sometimes problems, such as duplicates or interwiki conflicts, that make it nece

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

2013-05-06 Thread Peter Wendorff
Do they have something like a persistent ID in wikidata, yet? Do you want to add dozens of wikidata-tags (or a comma separated value or something like that), if more than one wikidata-element matches the osm element. Let's see this example: A building that was a merchants kontor a few hundret years

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

2013-05-06 Thread Kolossos
Hello Andreas, It seems in principle possible to support anchor-links but it was not in our focus, because our frontend had only one map per article. (You can believe me the sytem was complex enough ;-)). I will talk about this topic with my co-creator and the developer of WikiMiniAtlas. It

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

2013-05-06 Thread colliar
Am 05.05.2013 05:26, schrieb 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 "repl

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

2013-05-06 Thread Janko Mihelić
I made a wikidata tag proposal: http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Wikidata I think osm --> wikidata is much better than wikidata --> osm. At least while we don't have a solution for persistent ID's. Janko ___ talk mailing list talk@openstreetmap.org h

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

2013-05-06 Thread Andreas Labres
On 05.05.13 14:55, Kolossos wrote: > I don't like to support different reference systems in WIWOSM. I see the point. But WIWOSM seems not to work with anchor-links: Neither http://toolserver.org/~kolossos/openlayers/kml-on-ol-json3.php?lang=de&title=Liste%20der%20denkmalgesch%C3%BCtzten%20Objekte

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

2013-05-05 Thread malenki
[Quoting repaired on an (as it seems) accidential PM] yve...@gmail.com wrote on Sun, 05 May 2013 08:53:04: > malenki wrote >> >>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

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

2013-05-05 Thread Kolossos
Hello Andreas, to c) I don't like to support different reference systems in WIWOSM. Each country has it's own for monuments and than somebody starts with vulcanos or brigdes We would have to update WIWOSM each week without the generic system we have now. Greetings Tim Am 05.05.2013 11:

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

2013-05-05 Thread Jan Kučera
Hi guys, I am most likely the one who started the whole "issue" of adding relation IDs to Wikipedia at all - I created the Wikipedia templates and inserted several tenths of relation IDs to specific articles... and you know why? Because at the time I did that there was no WIWOSM (or any other usab

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

2013-05-05 Thread Andreas Labres
Tim, There are different problems, let's keep them separate (vielleicht reden wir auch - Englisch - aneinander vorbei... ;) a) There is a problem in the code of osm.org how it links wikipedia articles. You can't do a link like this: $PATH#anchor?uselang=en This is bad URL syntax. You (os

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

2013-05-05 Thread Kolossos
Hello Andreas, I hope Wikidata part 3 solve the problem with the list, so that an object would be one Wikidata entry and can be a member in different lists but can also have an own article. A map with objects in the example article is here:[1] I have no influence on the way how http://www.ope

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 t

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
.@gmail.com] Sent: Friday, May 03, 2013 2:08 PM To: Frederik Ramm Cc: OpenStreetMap Subject: Re: [OSM-talk] OSM relation ID property in Wikidata I am less concerned about the Wikidata side - if they make a bad judgement then it is their mess to clean up. I am however concerned that if more people

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

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

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

2013-05-03 Thread Roland Olbricht
Am Samstag, 4. Mai 2013, 02:26:08 schrieb Claus Stadler: > >> Isn't this thread about pointing from outside to osm? > > Yes, so the simple suggestion is for OSM to extend the API to expose the > wiki tags; something like > > Something along the lines of: > http://www.openstreetmap.org/api/0.6/wi

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

2013-05-03 Thread Claus Stadler
>> Isn't this thread about pointing from outside to osm? Yes, so the simple suggestion is for OSM to extend the API to expose the wiki tags; something like Something along the lines of: http://www.openstreetmap.org/api/0.6/wiki/{lang}/{article} And this would return the corresponding object(s)

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

2013-05-03 Thread Martin Koppenhoefer
2013/5/4 Claus Stadler > 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 is - what can be s

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

2013-05-03 Thread Claus Stadler
't Wikipedia be using the overpass API for referencing OSM? Thanks Jason. On Fri, May 3, 2013 at 6:46 PM, Paul Norman wrote: From: andrzej zaborowski [mailto:balr...@gmail.com] Sent: Friday, May 03, 2013 2:08 PM To: Frederik Ramm Cc: OpenStreetMap Subject: Re: [OSM-talk] OSM relation ID propert

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

2013-05-03 Thread Jason Remillard
t;> From: andrzej zaborowski [mailto:balr...@gmail.com] >> Sent: Friday, May 03, 2013 2:08 PM >> To: Frederik Ramm >> Cc: OpenStreetMap >> Subject: Re: [OSM-talk] OSM relation ID property in Wikidata >> >> > I am less concerned about the Wikidata side - if th

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

2013-05-03 Thread Paul Norman
> From: andrzej zaborowski [mailto:balr...@gmail.com] > Sent: Friday, May 03, 2013 2:08 PM > To: Frederik Ramm > Cc: OpenStreetMap > Subject: Re: [OSM-talk] OSM relation ID property in Wikidata > > > I am less concerned about the Wikidata side - if they make a bad > &

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

2013-05-03 Thread andrzej zaborowski
On 3 May 2013 23:22, Frederik Ramm wrote: > * some objects whose ID had not changed and who had been created by someone > who rejected the license were nonetheless kept if it could be shown that > they had been changed in a major way since; > > * some objects that had been freshly created by peopl

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

2013-05-03 Thread Henning Scholland
Am 03.05.2013 23:08, schrieb andrzej zaborowski: On 3 May 2013 22:58, Frederik Ramm wrote: On 03.05.2013 22:12, Eugene Alvin Villar wrote: The consensus was that--at least for place relations which are the target of the said property--OSM relation IDs are stable enough and any changes in IDs c

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

2013-05-03 Thread Frederik Ramm
Hi, On 03.05.2013 23:18, andrzej zaborowski wrote: I don't understand -- wasn't the entire process based on the assumption that intellectual property persists as long as the object ID persists? No, that is a misconception. During the license change we deviated from that idea in both direction

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

2013-05-03 Thread andrzej zaborowski
On 3 May 2013 23:14, Frederik Ramm wrote: > On 03.05.2013 23:08, andrzej zaborowski wrote: >> The OSMF has sent a pretty strong message saying that object IDs are >> stable enough to base impactful legal decisions on them. > > The OSMF has never sent messages saying that object IDs are stable or e

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

2013-05-03 Thread Jochen Topf
On Fri, May 03, 2013 at 11:08:01PM +0200, andrzej zaborowski wrote: > On 3 May 2013 22:58, Frederik Ramm wrote: > > On 03.05.2013 22:12, Eugene Alvin Villar wrote: > >> The consensus was that--at least for place relations which are the > >> target of the said property--OSM relation IDs are stable

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

2013-05-03 Thread Frederik Ramm
Hi, On 03.05.2013 23:08, andrzej zaborowski wrote: The OSMF has sent a pretty strong message saying that object IDs are stable enough to base impactful legal decisions on them. The OSMF has never sent messages saying that object IDs are stable or even "stable enough" for anything; if you inte

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

2013-05-03 Thread andrzej zaborowski
On 3 May 2013 22:58, Frederik Ramm wrote: > On 03.05.2013 22:12, Eugene Alvin Villar wrote: >> The consensus was that--at least for place relations which are the >> target of the said property--OSM relation IDs are stable enough and any >> changes in IDs can be easily rectified. Wikidata is a wiki

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

2013-05-03 Thread Frederik Ramm
Hi, On 03.05.2013 22:12, Eugene Alvin Villar wrote: The consensus was that--at least for place relations which are the target of the said property--OSM relation IDs are stable enough and any changes in IDs can be easily rectified. Wikidata is a wiki after all. I am less concerned about the Wik

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

2013-05-03 Thread Eugene Alvin Villar
On Sat, May 4, 2013 at 3:33 AM, Frederik Ramm wrote: > On 03.05.2013 18:15, Svavar Kjarrval wrote: > >> Just wanted to notify those who didn't know: There is now a property >> (P402) in use in Wikidata to link the corresponding entry to a relation >> ID in OSM. >> > > This is a very bad idea and

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

2013-05-03 Thread Frederik Ramm
Hi, On 03.05.2013 18:15, Svavar Kjarrval wrote: Just wanted to notify those who didn't know: There is now a property (P402) in use in Wikidata to link the corresponding entry to a relation ID in OSM. This is a very bad idea and should not be used. Bye Frederik -- Frederik Ramm ## eMail fre