[Talk-GB] Household Waste Recycling

Jez Nicholson jez.nicholson at gmail.com
Mon Mar 22 17:16:47 UTC 2021


Good stuff.

All this activity is to see whether Councils could improve OSM and Wikidata
rather than publishing their own data. The Wikidata record could be used to
connect Environment Agency licence numbers, etc. that may not make suitable
OSM attributes.

My contact very kindly donated their work so far on compiling that list
from licences, websites, etc. They feel very strongly that basic factual
data like where the local tip is should be available to everyone. UK Gov is
not making this information Open Data, so we are.


On Mon, 22 Mar 2021, 17:03 Andy Mabbett, <andy at pigsonthewing.org.uk> wrote:

> On Mon, 22 Mar 2021 at 10:15, Paul Berry <pmberry2007 at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> > They are one of those features that are not only impossible to armchair
> map in any detail
> > but actually require a resident to drive through the facility.
>
> One of my local (but not the nearest; so I've never been there) HRCs
> was mapped as a node, tagged simply "amenity=recycling".
>
> Yesterday, I added tags for name= , and wikidata=
>
> I similarly added to the Wikidata item operator=, street-address= and
> an alias for its name, as well as improving the description.
>
> I did all this from my armchair, having reviewed both the local
> authority's and its commercial partner's webpages for the site, and of
> course the Wikidata item itself, which was created as part of the
> initiative described in Jez's OP.
>
> There is much that can legitimately be done to improve OSM, and
> related Wikidata items, from armchairs, especially during COVID
> lockdown.
>
>
> --
> Andy Mabbett
> @pigsonthewing
> http://pigsonthewing.org.uk
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