On 28/05/2015, Frederik Ramm <frede...@remote.org> wrote: > It is my impression that a large proportion of name:xx tags in OSM are > added by "naming specialists" who do little else than large scale name > additions.
Nothing wrong with that, a lot of OSM contributors specialize in some type of data. > it would probably not be too much to ask for them to indulge > Wikidata instead of OSM. Probably not. > If we could offload 99.99% of all name:xx tags to > Wikidata and keep them only in edge cases like your Scalinata di Trinità > dei Monti, why not? Why would a few cases in which name:xx tags remain > ruin the whole scheme? I really like the idea of offloading "translation" work to wikidata, but I see important issues : 1) Consuming the data at scale is not trivial. Querying wikidata API for each osm object with a wikidata link would kill performance. Consumers would need to mirror wikidata (with some luck just a dump of Id->names) and keep it as up to date as the osm data. 1.2) It'd be a great thing to do regardless of what OSM decides about its name:CC tags. But OSM shouldn't change its behavior until 1 or more major rendering, geocoding, and routing projects have implemented the workflow and come back to talk about it. 2) The cutoff for which name:CC belongs into OSM or not is arbitrary. Ireland's first official language is Irish, but in most you won't find anybody who speaks mainly Irish (yet we hope to reach 100% name:ga coverage in OSM). At the other end of the scale, London is one of the most cosmopolitain city in the world, so there's a fair chance that all 154 London names in OSM correspond to the native language of somebody currently living there. 3) Contributing to OSM is already very hard: most people in OSM's target audience of "people whi have VGI to contribute" are not tech-savvy. Raising the bar by making wikidata (with its different UI and community style) doesn't sound like a good idea. _______________________________________________ talk mailing list talk@openstreetmap.org https://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk