<div dir="ltr"><div><div><div><div><div>I don't think Wikidata will deem all businesses in the world noteworthy enough for inclusion. In our own instance of OSMdata we can include whatever we like, of course.<br><br></div>businesses<br></div><div>addresses as first class citizens<br></div>streets<br></div>PT stops, routes and we may even be able to figure out a way to include time tables<br></div>the sky is the limit<br><br></div>Jo<br></div><div class="gmail_extra"><br><div class="gmail_quote">2015-05-29 18:43 GMT+02:00 Andrew Guertin <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:andrew.guertin@uvm.edu" target="_blank">andrew.guertin@uvm.edu</a>></span>:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">On 05/27/2015 05:13 PM, Frederik Ramm wrote:<br>
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We are a database of geodata [...]<br>
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Would it not be better to record the wikidata link for London, and<br>
then (perhaps in co-operation with people at Wikidata) provide means<br>
for people doing map rendering to join OSM data with a<br>
separately-loaded translation table from Wikidata?<br>
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Would this be restricted to just names?<br>
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I can imagine a world where no information about businesses is stored in OSM. OSM has a geometry and a wikidata link. Wikidata says what kind of business it is, what its name is, what its contact info it, what its opening hours are, etc.<br>
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That would be a very different world from the one we live in. In lieu of listing them all out, I will just say I can see many benefits to living in that world, and many benefits to what we have now.<br>
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Is that a goal of this integration?<br>
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I've been thinking about this for a while, so I have a lot of questions based on the answer...<div class="HOEnZb"><div class="h5"><br>
--Andrew<br>
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