Simon Poole <si...@poole.ch> wrote: > > On 28 August 2014 09:09, Simon Poole <si...@poole.ch> wrote: > >> What you do avoid by not tagging in OSM is > >> maintenance (given that OSM objects are not > >> necessarily a persistent reference to a single real > >> world entity). > > > > Very few Wikidata IDs will change (far fewer than Wikipedia article > > names, for instance; and far fewer than IDs or other tags in OSM). > > > > Again, this is a statistically-insignificant edge-case. > > I wasn't expecting wikidata IDs to change at all. OSM objects will get > reused, copied, split, moved, deleted etc. leading to missing or wrong > wikidata tags. Naturally these could be detected by re-running Edwards > code, but that kind of proves my point.
I don't think 'humans will make mistakes in future' should be used as an argument against an import of machine generated data. If it becomes a big problem we could modify the editors to warn when multiple items in a changeset have the same wikidata ID. -- Edward. _______________________________________________ talk mailing list talk@openstreetmap.org https://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk
