On Wednesday 29 November 2017, Eugene Alvin Villar wrote: > > So you want us to develop OSM tools and improve editors to preserve > and manage OSM ID inheritance/permanence. But this is not a simple > problem to solve. > > On the other hand, you deem maintenance of Wikidata IDs in OSM a huge > bother. But we can create OSM tools and improve editors as well to > help manage this. I imagine that this is a simpler problem to solve > than the first problem of OSM ID permanence. > > Also, we don't require mappers to add wikipedia=* tags to objects > they map in OSM, or to maintain these Wikipedia tags so that they > remain accurate and updated. Other mappers are free to update and > maintain these tags. This is accepted practice and there is no huge > outcry against adding more wikipedia=* tags.
Please don't recite what i wrote in a distorting way. I said nothing of what you imply i said above. You are free to ignore what i said or interpret it for you as you like but you are not free to present a distorting interpretation as if i actually said that. I am aware that that the analysis and suggestions i present are often very brief and sometimes difficult to understand - when i say something like "external IDs [...] will never scale on a level of hundreds of millions of features in the end" you will only be able to understand what i mean if you approach the subject with an open mind and analyze the same scenario questioning any preconceived assumptions you might have about it. But i have no intention pressing anyone who is not ready for it to do that. > This accepted practice with respect to wikipedia=* tags can be > equally applied to wikidata=* tags. We won't require mappers to do > research to add this tag, but other mappers are free to add/maintain > these as well. I see no huge problem with this. I have no real problem with that either - just like i have no problem with people keeping adding is_in tags. As said i would advise against it but we have the freedom to use any tags you want and i firmly believe in that. You can question if this freedom applies to non-verifiable tags but i am not niggling here. Automated edits adding/modifying wikidata tags are a different subject of course but that is not the topic here. -- Christoph Hormann http://www.imagico.de/ _______________________________________________ Tagging mailing list Tagging@openstreetmap.org https://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/tagging