On Mon, Aug 8, 2016 at 9:42 PM, Pine W <wiki.p...@gmail.com> wrote: > Speaking as an OSM novice but an experienced Wikimedian, having Wikidata > ID tags makes sense to me. This sounds like something that could benefit > Wikidata, Wikipedia, and other projects that recognize Wikidata IDs. There > might be no need to have multiple external ID tags in OSM if the Wikidata > tag is included and if other projects can recognize the Wikidata ID. > However, this assumes that Wikidata agrees that objects that get tagged in > OSM are worthy of having a Wikidata item; an unremarkable McDonald's might > be below that threshold for Wikidata even if the store is worthy of > inclusion on OSM. Pinging Lydia and Yuri to ask if they have thoughts about > this.
Pine, It was great meeting you at sotmus. Wikipedia tags should only be used on objects that have a wikipedia article. McDonalds fastfood locations wouldn't normally have an article. Similarly, something I can relate better to is Starbucks. We had a problem where people were adding the starbucks wikipedia tag to every location. As far as I could tell, only one starbucks has an article, the one by Pike Place Market. Having the wikipedia tag was creating a problem with Nominatim which gives a higher rank to locations with a wikipedia article. Most likely many brand name stores are tagged wrong. Someone with good skills could write a script, after approval from the community, to remove those tags. Clifford -- @osm_seattle osm_seattle.snowandsnow.us OpenStreetMap: Maps with a human touch
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