On 25 May 2015 at 17:13, moltonel 3x Combo <molto...@gmail.com> wrote:
> * wikipedia names are friendlyer to mappers, and generally more well-known Wikidata labels should be more useful, contain less redundancy, and be no less well-known. For example, "High Street" rather than "High Street, Birmingham" > * wikidata objects don't necessarily exist for all wikipedia articles > we want to use Apart from newly created Wikipedia articles, with a Wikidata item not far behind, the reverse is true. > * For data consumers wanting to show the wikipedia article (by far the > most common usecase), using the wikipedia tag is much more > straightforward than using the wikidata tag Except when the Wikipedia article has been moved and the old name reused. -- Andy Mabbett @pigsonthewing http://pigsonthewing.org.uk _______________________________________________ Tagging mailing list Tagging@openstreetmap.org https://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/tagging
