[OHM] Wikidata + OSM

[Susanna Ånäs]

That would be great. Thanks, Jo!

Susanna

2015-03-11 12:37 GMT+02:00 Jo Walsh <metazool at fastmail.net>:

>
> On Tue, Mar 10, 2015, at 02:20 PM, Susanna Ånäs wrote:
>
> A question brought up in this list
> https://lists.wikimedia.org/pipermail/wikidata-l/2015-March/005574.html.
>
> I am a keen supporter of the idea, or something along the lines, for
> creating a historical gazetteer. Would anyone be willing to reply /
> participate in the discussion? I lack the technical capacity to do so.
>
>
> I have joined the wikidata list and may try to participate in the
> discussion. It is something that would be a very useful facility, outwith
> the historical context. A recent issue for DWG has been that of name
> translation / transliteration. It's clear that OSM is not the place to
> store hundreds of thousands of translated names; a dedicated wikidata
> instance could be an ideal exemplar.
>
> Note that licensing issues mean that data transport is one-way, e.g. it is
> not appropriate to copy from OSM into wikidata because the latter is CC0
> licensed, but copying from wikidata into OSM is okay.
> http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Wikidata
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