On 03-Mar-20 17:17, Andy Mabbett wrote:
Some of you will remember, around five years ago, a debate about
whether or not we should add Wikidata IDs to OSM.
We did, and so here's "EqualStreetNames.Brussels", an example of what
is now possible:
https://equalstreetnames.brussels/en/index.html
It shows streets in Brussels named after men and women, visualized
with data from OpenStreetMap and Wikidata.
Does anyone have other good examples?
I wrote a simple tool, which allows to view the Wikidata items, which
have the coordinates in the items themselves, on the OSM map:
http://ausleuchtung.ch/geo_wiki/?lat=46.66761954912767&lng=6.472320556640626&zm=13&lang=en&ds=wkd&rd=3
It is done via the MediaWikiAPI (in areas with large concentration of
Wikidata items reduce the radius from 10 to 2 or even to 1 km).
It is possible not only to add the Wikidata IDs to the OSM map, but also
to add (or verify) the geographical coordinates in the Wikidata items
themselves, so that they could be viewed on the OSM map via this and
other similar tools.
Another thing, - quite often a Wikidata item may happen not to have a
title, i.e. its label in English was not created yet (in this case, this
tool shows "en title is absent" on the geo-marker text). However, it is
relatively easy to add the label's translation in English and also in
other languages for a Wikidata item. In other words, some Wikidata items
themselves may benefit from attention.
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