[Talk-ca] Wikidata in OpenStreetMap

John Marshall rps333 at gmail.com
Fri Nov 11 01:19:36 UTC 2016


Great work James. I'm in.

John

John Marshall

On Nov 10, 2016 20:17, "James" <james2432 at gmail.com> wrote:

> Seeing as ID[1] and Mapbox[2] are pushing to incorporate wikidata into
> OSM, I thought it would be a perfect little project when mappers have
> nothing better to do or in their downtime.
>
> The wikidata link can help developers get vital information like the
> current population, current mayor, flags, coat of arms,etc. The list goes
> on. This is a lot of data that can't necessarily be encoded into OSM. This
> would help simplify the use of OSM data for small developers.
>
> I've started a project on the OSMCanada Tasking Manager here:
> http://tasks.osmcanada.ca/project/40
>
> Join in for a more data rich Canada :)
>
>
> [1] https://www.mapbox.com/blog/id-wikidata/
> [2] https://www.mapbox.com/blog/geocoding-wikidata/
>
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