[OSM-talk] OSM relation ID property in Wikidata

[Martin Koppenhoefer]

2013/5/4 Claus Stadler <cstadler at informatik.uni-leipzig.de>

> Hi,
>
> Shouldn't OSM use Wikipedia URLs as UUIDs where applicable rather than
> Wikipedia referring to database identifiers? (The answer is a clear 'yes'
> from my side.)
> In fact there are the (wikipedia, *) tags - but not sure how good the
> quality is - what can be seen on a first glance is, that people mix URLs
> and article names, and also encoding.
>
>


there are also other tags to point from certain OSM attributes to
wikipedia, e.g. http://taginfo.openstreetmap.org/keys/wikipedia%3Aoperatorand
http://taginfo.openstreetmap.org/keys/operator%3Awikipedia
but isn't this thread about pointing from outside to osm?

cheers,
Martin
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