On Fri, Jul 31, 2015 at 05:31:48PM +0200, Ruben Maes wrote: > 2015-07-31 17:21 GMT+02:00 Lester Caine <les...@lsces.co.uk>: > > On 31/07/15 16:09, Jo wrote: > >> That's what is proposed here though: > >> http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Proposed_features/Wikidata > >> > >> And it keeps that particular wikidata tag nicely together with the name > >> when sorted alphabetically. > > > > I don't see any point loading our servers down with wikidata content. If > > you want the data that goes with a 'wikidata=*' entry then simply ask > > wikidata for it. Same with wikipedia and other data sources. If you want > > a sorted list get wikidata to provide it ... > > He means that when you view it in JOSM, where tags are listed > alphabetically, they are nicely grouped together. > > Well-written software should know that anything longer that 3 > characters cannot be a language code and should ignore it if it isn't > interested. Especially when it has a colon in it.
If only it was that easy. Just a few examples from the name tags most used: name:ko_rm name:ja_rm name:sr-Latn name:right name:left The rule that name:* is some form of name for the object at hand has worked reasoably well so far for software like search engines that somehow try to capture all names. _______________________________________________ talk mailing list talk@openstreetmap.org https://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk
