[talk-au] Tagging non-govt (road) ways

Andrew Harvey andrew.harvey4 at gmail.com
Wed Nov 17 01:43:08 UTC 2021


Those suggestions look fine to me. For flags it means maps can render the
flag graphic, some is a bit redundant but not wrong.

On Wed, 17 Nov 2021 at 10:16, Graeme Fitzpatrick <graemefitz1 at gmail.com>
wrote:

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> On Tue, 16 Nov 2021 at 17:01, Andrew Hughes <ahhughes at gmail.com> wrote:
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>> I can see us using wikidata for other similar situations. Thank you for
>> also pointing that out.
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> OT to roads but on the subject of Wikidata
>
> Have noticed recently that iD has upped it's "suggestions" for various
> features to include a lot more Wikidata, but I'm not sure about their ideas?
>
> e.g. for Flagpoles, they now include:
> + country=AU (instead of au)
> + flag:name=Australia
> + flag:wikidata=Q81676
> + subject=Australia
> + subject:wikidata=Q408
>
> Do we really need a link to Australia?
>
> They also now have optional presets (including short names & Wikidata) for
> "Qld Ambulance Service" when you enter Ambulance, "Qld Police Service" for
> Police, & "Qld Fire & Emergency Services, but to get that one, you have to
> enter Queensland, not Fire?
>
> Thanks
>
> Graeme
>
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