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<div><br></div><div><br></div><div><br></div><div>Apr 2, 2022, 20:06 by andy@pigsonthewing.org.uk:<br></div><blockquote class="tutanota_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid #93A3B8; padding-left: 10px; margin-left: 5px;"><div>On Sat, 2 Apr 2022 at 18:32, Mateusz Konieczny via Tagging<br></div><div><tagging@openstreetmap.org> wrote:<br></div><blockquote>Apr 2, 2022, 18:16 by andy@pigsonthewing.org.uk:<br></blockquote><blockquote><div>Space - of which this entry takes up very little - is not an issue for<br></div><div>infobox templates.<br></div><div><br></div><div>1) it is primary about complexity and information overload<br></div><div>and outright misleading info<br></div></blockquote><div><br></div><div>A single Wikidata link is not "complex".<br></div></blockquote><div dir="auto">I was thinking about overall complexity of OSM, OSM Wiki,<br></div><div dir="auto">specific tag pages and infobox specifically.<br></div><div dir="auto"><br></div><div dir="auto">As more elements are presented this gets overall more and<br></div><div dir="auto">more complex.<br></div><div dir="auto"><br></div><div dir="auto">In such situation presence of confusing links of very limited<br></div><div dir="auto">use in infobox is a mistake.<br></div><div dir="auto">Infobox should contain summary and the most crucial info.<br></div><div dir="auto"><br></div><blockquote class="tutanota_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid #93A3B8; padding-left: 10px; margin-left: 5px;"><div>Your claims of "outright misleading info" are based on a<br></div><div>statistically-insignificant handful of edge cases examples.<br></div></blockquote><div dir="auto">I spend already massive amount of time of cleaning up<br></div><div dir="auto">many mismatches. I am not planning to produce rigorous<br></div><div dir="auto">analysis here that would be publishable in a journal.<br></div><blockquote class="tutanota_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid #93A3B8; padding-left: 10px; margin-left: 5px;"><div dir="auto"> Would you<br></div><div>be happy with other projects dropping links to OSM based on a similar<br></div><div>sample? I'm sure OSM has as many, if not many more.<br></div></blockquote><div dir="auto">Depends on quality they need. For some projects OSM data is not<br></div><div dir="auto">good enough and never will be good enough. And such projects need<br></div><div dir="auto">professional survey, sometimes custom and dedicated survey.<br></div><blockquote class="tutanota_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid #93A3B8; padding-left: 10px; margin-left: 5px;"><div>Each of those examples is easily fixable.<br></div></blockquote><div dir="auto">Feel free to fix them, most of this examples are listed and waiting<br></div><div dir="auto">for over year.<br></div><div dir="auto">After fixing the I will either provide more or will happily declare<br></div><div dir="auto">that this problem is not existing anymore.<br></div><div dir="auto"><br></div><div dir="auto">But I tried to fix some structural issues on Wikidata<br></div><div dir="auto">in past and it was not easy, and I am not planning to <br></div><div dir="auto">spend my time on it.<br></div><blockquote class="tutanota_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid #93A3B8; padding-left: 10px; margin-left: 5px;"><blockquote>2) on mobile space is also problem<br></blockquote><div><br></div><div>It is not.<br></div></blockquote><div dir="auto">Well, in my experience on mobile devices screen space is very valuable,<br></div><div dir="auto">especially on smartphones.<br></div><div dir="auto"><br></div><div dir="auto">This is quite standard advise for materials published on mobile devices.<br></div> </body>
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