[osm-pl] [OSM-talk] Fixing 850+ disambiguation errors

[masti]

On 11.09.2017 09:38, Oleksiy Muzalyev wrote:
> On 11.09.17 05:35, Yuri Astrakhan wrote:
>> Now all disambig-broken points on a map. Click the point to fix it.
>>
>> http://tinyurl.com/ya6htp9f
>>
>>
>> On Sun, Sep 10, 2017 at 4:04 AM, Yuri Astrakhan 
>> <yuriastrakhan w gmail.com <mailto:yuriastrakhan w gmail.com>> wrote:
>>
>>     Thanks!  Worry not, I just added more for fixing, by extracting
>>     them from Wikipedia tag using the "fetch wikidata" JOSM tool.  And
>>     there is 50K more to add, judging by the difference in
>>     key:wikipedia vs key:wikidata in taginfo - i'm sure there are many
>>     more errors hiding behind the hard to process wikipedia tag.
>>
>>     Also, if you have some time, please take a look at the other
>>     quality control queries in the examples. Again, thanks for 
>> helping!!!
>>
> Yuri,
>
> It is great!
>
> The same list but represented on the map makes all the difference. 
> I've just even corrected a disambiguation error for the "pl" Wikipedia 
> on the territory of Ukraine.
>
> For handling such errors often common sense and understanding of 
> Wikipedia and especially Wikidata concepts is enough. But some require 
> a certain local knowledge.
>
> I wish there was such a layer on the OSM map, - a Wikipedia & Wikidata 
> layer. It could show by default all the Wikipedia articles & the 
> Wikidata items, which have the coordinates, on the map. Or there could 
> be an option to display the disambiguation and other errors or issues, 
> - for example, articles which require an illustration.
>
> The OSM map and the Wikipedia (Wikidata) are certainly great each by 
> itself, but when combined together, they create a powerful synergy, 
> which would, in my opinion, literally change the world. People spend a 
> lot of money for traveling thousands away kilometers to see 
> interesting places, burn tons of fossil fuel by doing it, causing 
> climate change and consequent natural disasters, while unaware that 
> there are absolutely amazing places nearby. But how could they know it 
> if there is no such layer on the map?
>
> For instance, twenty minutes from my place there is a Roman Empire 
> workshop which produced roof tiles and bricks for 800 years without 
> interruption (I created a Wikipedia article [1] about it and filmed a 
> short video [2]). For that epoch it was a hi-tech factory. Still now 
> there are ancient tiles and bricks two millenniums old all around this 
> place in woods. I think it would be interesting to learn more about 
> these people, who created and practiced this impressive technology, 
> true heroes, who literally built the civilization.
>
> I wrote a simple application which shows all the Wikipedia articles 
> for a selected language version, Wikimedia categories, and Wikidata 
> items in the radius of ten kilometers around the click [3]. But 
> certainly, a global layer with the precalculated markers' locations, 
> similar to the one as via the URL in your message, would be much better.
>
> [1] https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tuilerie_romaine_des_Bois_de_Chancy
>
> [2] https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Roman-Tiles-Workshop.webm
>
> [3] http://ausleuchtung.ch/geo_wiki/
>
>
there is also such app for Poland and Wikipedia articles:
http://osmapa.pl/w/kontaktlinki/

masti