Hi James, > This should explain more of what wikidata is capable of doing via 1 tag: > http://www.openstreetmap.org/user/LogicalViolinist/diary/39872
Yes, I think the wikidata tag is a good idea. It would be nice of there were an easier query language than Sparql to pull out towns/cities that Wikidata already knows about … but that might constitute an import. > is_in:country: Canada Hey, a little bit Anglocentric there. Why not also is_in:country:lv=Kanāda, is_in:country:ml=കാനഡ, is_in:country:ne=क्यानाडा, …? > state_code,country_code, iso_3166_2 are ISO notations that can be used > and have a standard that is international and can be parsed easily by > computers. And also complete duplication of existing boundary information. The is_in:iso_3166_2 seems to be very rarely used (~200 in all of N. America) and has no documentation. So it's best not used, or should be discussed and documented first. The wikidata tag also contains a geographic membership relationship, so it's not like we need is_in:* to help them. > What I don't like in "is_in" tag is as you said it's a bunch of garbage No, I said that the is_in *family* of tags is deprecated. But we're fairly heavy users of it in Canada (something like 10% of the world's is_in:* tags are in Ontario + Quebec: https://taginfo.openstreetmap.org/keys/?key=is_in#overview), likely due to the age of our imports. cheers, Stewart _______________________________________________ Talk-ca mailing list Talk-ca@openstreetmap.org https://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk-ca
