Re: [OSM-talk] This needs to be voted upon. (was: Re: Separating all metadata from coordinates in OSM into a wikibase instance)

2020-08-10 Thread Paul Johnson
On Mon, Aug 10, 2020 at 1:03 AM Mateusz Konieczny via talk < talk@openstreetmap.org> wrote: > Before going to vote it would need to demonstrate some sort of clear > benefit and > consensus that it is reasonable. > For this, as well as my take on this

Re: [OSM-talk] This needs to be voted upon. (was: Re: Separating all metadata from coordinates in OSM into a wikibase instance)

2020-08-10 Thread stevea
Even better stated, if pangoSE is interested in a longer-term goal (and, it truly must be this if anything at all) of moving OSM towards becoming a "full member of the semantic web," fairly large things must happen. 1) Linked data and "the semantic web" (which has been emerging since circa

Re: [OSM-talk] This needs to be voted upon. (was: Re: Separating all metadata from coordinates in OSM into a wikibase instance)

2020-08-10 Thread stevea
I didn't mean to convey or imply that a vote was impending, moreso that I seriously disagree with the proposal as unneeded, unnecessary, poorly explained as to its benefits, and (as was well described before, though I paraphrase), "a ready-made answer for a non-problem." My apologies if

Re: [OSM-talk] This needs to be voted upon. (was: Re: Separating all metadata from coordinates in OSM into a wikibase instance)

2020-08-10 Thread Mateusz Konieczny via talk
Aug 10, 2020, 07:49 by md...@xs4all.nl: > On 2020-08-10 03:32, stevea wrote: > >> On Aug 9, 2020, at 5:29 AM, pangoSE wrote: >> >>> The discussion below spawned the following idea of migrating the whole tags >>> system instead. >>> >> (an over engineered proposal largely, as Frederick says

[OSM-talk] This needs to be voted upon. (was: Re: Separating all metadata from coordinates in OSM into a wikibase instance)

2020-08-09 Thread Maarten Deen
On 2020-08-10 03:32, stevea wrote: On Aug 9, 2020, at 5:29 AM, pangoSE wrote: The discussion below spawned the following idea of migrating the whole tags system instead. (an over engineered proposal largely, as Frederick says and I agree with, goosed by the "hype of linked data.") I politely