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<div class="moz-cite-prefix">On 04.01.2017 20:04, Yves wrote:<br>
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cite="mid:ECE94914-AFFF-4D8D-BD3C-F4A67D65703E@gmail.com"
type="cite">This all conversation confort my (un-educated, I
confess) idea of the uselessness of cross referencing the
Wikipedia ecosystem with OSM with OSM tags. <br>
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Automated addition of wikidata id to OSM objects seems worthy, so
why not doing it on the fly instead of writing it to the database?
Next year maybe? <br>
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Also, I always wondered what it supposed to happen when an OSM
contributor who like me does not give a damn of an external ID
when he/she edits an OSM element? <br>
Yves </blockquote>
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Sometimes a Wikipedia article does not have coordinates. For example
the article about the <a
href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/STMicroelectronics">STMicroelectronics
SA</a> as it is a big company with many locations. However, we can
add to its headquarters building a clickable Wikidata tag and an
image tag: <br>
<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="http://www.openstreetmap.org/way/109964315">http://www.openstreetmap.org/way/109964315</a> <br>
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There other similar case, - no wikipedia article, no wikidata page,
but there is a Wikimedia commons category; for example La Givrine
train station:<br>
<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="http://www.openstreetmap.org/node/249463533">http://www.openstreetmap.org/node/249463533</a><br>
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Unfortunately, wikimedia_commons is not yet clickable on the OSM
map. Here is a clickable link to this category:
<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Category:La_Givrine_train_station">https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Category:La_Givrine_train_station</a><br>
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If you are to travel to/from this train station in mountains, you
can learn a lot of practical useful information from the Wikimedia
category images: that there is a heated waiting hall at the station,
a ticketing machine, etc.<br>
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Oleksiy<br>
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