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<div class="moz-cite-prefix">Am 27.02.2013 12:28, schrieb Janko
Mihelić:<br>
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<div class="gmail_quote">2013/2/27 Pieren <span dir="ltr"><<a
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Tag "operator:wikidata=Q38076" much better than
"operator=McDonalds" ?!<br>
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Are you all so disconnected from real contributors ?<br>
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Real contributors can continue to write operator tags. I'm
always for making it easier for the mapper. But why not help
developers once in a while?<br>
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How does it help developers to have a minimal number of
wikidata-tags in osm? If that's not tagged in the majority of
objects, developers still have to support the fallback from the
operator with all work that comes with this support. Not supporting
that fallback will fail in most cases; so what's the benefit of the
wikidata-tag?<br>
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<div>Right now we have 886 McDonald's, 53 McDonalds and 9 <span
class="overflow">McDonald's␣Deutschland␣Inc. I'm not going
to mass change them to what I think they should be, because
they all could have their reasons to give them that operator
name. But Wikidata ID should be unchangeable and
unambiguous, so mistakes should be easy to spot and fix.<br>
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For McDonald's and mcDonalds you'r right, I think; for McDonald's
Deutschland Inc I guess there is a corresponding company inside the
worldwide company, and that this might have a distinct entry in
wikidata. So this wouldn't help either.<br>
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regards<br>
Peter<br>
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