On 27 September 2017 at 14:37, Simon Poole <si...@poole.ch> wrote: > Am 27.09.2017 um 15:00 schrieb Andy Mabbett:
>> Tim Berners Lee coined the "Five Stars of Open Data" >> >> http://5stardata.info/en/ > You are assuming > a) that an arbitrary best practice definition is relevant for OSM It's not "arbitrary". You can find TBL's credentials here: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tim_Berners-Lee > b) that we get any real life brownie points for this outside of academia I don't give a fig about (and most certainly did not refer to) "brownie points". >> and that's what including Wikidata iDs in cases such as the above does. >> >> In fact, since that makes OSM more useful and thus more attractive to >> re-users, it *does* matter to OSM. > You still haven't given any specific real world use case in which > brand:wikidata would actually be helpful and somebody would -really- > want to consume it. You didn't ask for one. But since you now do: * A data consumer wants to render a map with logos of shops and restaurants * A data consumer wants to link to Wikipedia articles about same, in the local language * A data consumer wants to calculate and compare the distances between (or density of) the outlets of a particular brand, in different countries, regardless of the script in which the plaintext name of the brand has been entered. > Outside of than that it would obviously be good for > wikidata and for people going to linked data conferences. That's the second time you've mentioned a supposed benefit to Wikidata; any such benefit is minimal, and certainly not my - nor, I'm sure, Yuri's - reason for wanting to fix the issues outlined in the OP. The conference comment is pure snark. > My take is that it adds a nearly impossible to maintain (consider your > own Woolworth's example), non-speaking, foreign key for additional > information that is already that is already quite adequately provided > by the brand key. Your take is mistaken, as shown previously. -- Andy Mabbett @pigsonthewing http://pigsonthewing.org.uk _______________________________________________ talk mailing list talk@openstreetmap.org https://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk
