On 01/09/14 02:28, Eugene Alvin Villar wrote: > 3. You fear that linking to Wikidata opens up the floodgates for linking > from OSM to other databases (such as national registries and the like). > But actually, it makes much more sense to link from Wikidata, being a > database about data, to those other databases instead of from OSM. In > fact, Wikidata already has many of properties (like keys in OSM) that > provide links to other databases[1][2]. We can leverage that in OSM by > linking to Wikidata.
As I said earlier, wikimedia DO finally seam to be learning, but they have a long way to go before I will waste time contributing again. That THEY control what they allow to be covered is my only problem here and if I see any 'delete as not notable enough' on links .... History is important and just because it does not fit into someone view of the world is irrelevant. wikidata is probably a knee-jerk reaction to the wiping a vast swathes of history out of wikipedia as it does seem to be a little better? I have no problem linking to other data, and other registries ARE already using OSM to provide their graphical data. Wikidata actually needs a tag for an OSM reference ( a quick search showed nothing? ) and then we can access that data as we can other registries using OSM as well. It would be nice to have the same link on geonames which provides other key cross references already ... such as administrative hierarchy! For the time being I will concentrate on that as a cross reference to obtain timezone data for OSM. If wikidata is so open, then every tag added here should have the reciprocal tag added there, then I'll believe it's worth using :) -- Lester Caine - G8HFL ----------------------------- Contact - http://lsces.co.uk/wiki/?page=contact L.S.Caine Electronic Services - http://lsces.co.uk EnquirySolve - http://enquirysolve.com/ Model Engineers Digital Workshop - http://medw.co.uk Rainbow Digital Media - http://rainbowdigitalmedia.co.uk _______________________________________________ talk mailing list talk@openstreetmap.org https://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk
