[OHM] Wikidata + OSM

Albin Larsson albin.post at gmail.com
Wed Mar 18 18:26:03 UTC 2015


I have been doing some work on OHM and linked data, it works with Wikidata
out of the box(and any other open URI based platform), writing a blog
post/showcase about it.

Sharing it here when it's published.

2015-03-11 12:07 GMT+01:00 Susanna Ånäs <susanna.anas at gmail.com>:

> 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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