[Talk-ca] Wikidata in OpenStreetMap

[James]

This should explain more of what wikidata is capable of doing via 1 tag:
http://www.openstreetmap.org/user/LogicalViolinist/diary/39872

Stewart I do agree that the tag "is_in" is completely useless, I was more
targeting the sub-tags(I put a star not to list them, but I will)
For example Ottawa:

name: Ottawa
is_in:continent: North America
is_in:iso_3166_2: CA-ON
is_in:country: Canada
is_in:country_code: CA
is_in:state: Ontario
is_in:state_code: ON

state_code,country_code, iso_3166_2 are ISO notations that can be used and
have a standard that is international and can be parsed easily by computers.

What I don't like in "is_in" tag is as you said it's a bunch of garbage
thrown together, which helps no one:
name:Canberra
place:city
is_in:capital_cities; Australian Capital Territory; ACT; Australia
is_in:state=Australian Capital Territory
is_in:state_code=ACT
is_in:country=Australia (use english name of the country)
is_in:country_code=AU



On Fri, Nov 11, 2016 at 9:43 AM, Stewart Russell <scruss at gmail.com> wrote:

> On Nov 11, 2016 6:04 AM, "James" <james2432 at gmail.com> wrote:
> >
> > The other tags are precisions (instead of doing massive spatial joins)
> > you will know that say Ottawa is in Ontario
>
> I disagree that these need to be added. is_in* seems to be deprecated, and
> we have (or should have) robust boundary=administrative data for Canada.
>
> My main complaints about is_in are:
> * it's freeform, so you can't reliably create a relation to the parent
> entity from the text;
> * it's language sensitive, so you could in theory have no end of localized
> versions.
>
> Stewart
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