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<div>I used it with manual review of tagged objects and with verification of every match.<br></div><div><br></div><div>It is necessary as many matches are spurious/invalid (see bug reports at<br></div><div><a href="https://github.com/EdwardBetts/osm-wikidata/issues">https://github.com/EdwardBetts/osm-wikidata/issues</a> ). <br></div><div><br></div><div>Note that it is not criticism of the tool - some false positives will be always present.<br></div><div><br></div><div>Not sure what can be done on tool side. I would encourage reverting any edits <br></div><div>of people who used this tool without real review of what is added, but not sure what more<br></div><div>can be done. Except <a href="https://github.com/EdwardBetts/osm-wikidata/issues/555">https://github.com/EdwardBetts/osm-wikidata/issues/555</a> that<br></div><div>was just partially fixed (there is now "show all tags" tool)<br></div><div><br></div><div>Maybe remind in OSM Wiki page that blind adding without verification is not helpful at all?<br></div><div><br></div><div>Oct 8, 2020, 23:27 by joseph.eisenberg@gmail.com:<br></div><blockquote class="tutanota_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid #93A3B8; padding-left: 10px; margin-left: 5px;"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div><a href="https://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/OSM_%E2%86%94_Wikidata" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">https://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/OSM_↔_Wikidata</a><br></div><div><br></div><div>According to the new wiki entry, OSM ↔ Wikidata is a tool that is supposed to automatically find all wikidata entries for OpenStreetMap features in a certain area, and make it easy to add the tags semi-automatically.<br></div><div><br></div><div>This seems like it will invite violations of the Automated Edits policy (<a href="https://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Automated_edits" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">https://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Automated_edits</a>)<br></div><div><br></div><div>"OSM ↔ Wikidata (osm-wikidata-link) is a web based tool that can be used to semi-automatically add the Wikidata tag to an OpenStreetMap object. It is developed by Edward Betts (Edward) (and others github contributors) in Python and web technologies (HTML/CSS/JS)." <br></div></div><div dir="ltr"><br></div><div dir="ltr">"<span style=""><span class="font" style="font-family:sans-serif"><span class="size" style="font-size:14px">This tool displays results in tabs:</span></span></span><br></div><ol style="margin:0.3em 0px 0px 3.2em;padding:0px;font-family:sans-serif;font-size:14px"><li style="margin-bottom:0.1em"><div>Match candidates: display the potential OSM objects matching Wikidata item<br></div><ul style="margin:0.3em 0px 0px 1.6em;padding:0px"><li style="margin-bottom:0.1em"><div>This is the main tab. It allows user to match and add <span class="font" style="font-family:menlo,consolas,"courier new",monospace"><a style="text-decoration:none;color:rgb(11,0,128);background-image:none" title="Key:wikidata" href="https://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Key:wikidata" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">wikidata</a>=*</span> tags to OSM objects<br></div></li></ul></li><li style="margin-bottom:0.1em"><div>Already tagged: display the OSM object and his <span class="font" style="font-family:menlo,consolas,"courier new",monospace"><a style="text-decoration:none;color:rgb(11,0,128);background-image:none" title="Key:wikidata" href="https://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Key:wikidata" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">wikidata</a>=*</span> key<br></div></li><li style="margin-bottom:0.1em"><div>No match: display Wikidata item without match in OSM<br></div><ul style="margin:0.3em 0px 0px 1.6em;padding:0px"><li style="margin-bottom:0.1em"><div>This tab allows user to edit OSM and add the <span class="font" style="font-family:menlo,consolas,"courier new",monospace"><a style="text-decoration:none;color:rgb(11,0,128);background-image:none" title="Key:wikidata" href="https://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Key:wikidata" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">wikidata</a>=*</span> tag manually<br></div></li></ul></li><li style="margin-bottom:0.1em">Wikidata query: display the Wikidata SPARQL query."<br></li></ol><div><br></div><div>What should we ask the developers to do so that this tool won't be encouraging every to violate the Automated Edits policy?<br></div></div><div dir="ltr"><br></div><div>- Joseph Eisenberg<br></div></div></blockquote><div><br></div> </body>
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