[OSM-talk] OSM relation ID property in Wikidata

[Roland Olbricht]

Am Samstag, 4. Mai 2013, 02:26:08 schrieb Claus Stadler:
>  >> Isn't this thread about pointing from outside to osm?
> 
> Yes, so the simple suggestion is for OSM to extend the API to expose the
> wiki tags; something like
> 
> Something along the lines of:
> http://www.openstreetmap.org/api/0.6/wiki/{lang}/{article}
> And this would return the corresponding object(s).

There are variants in the way an article can be tagged. These are not only 
different point of views on tagging, but also have different meanings.

wikipedia="fr:Bruxelles" makes Brussels a french speaking town with some 
flamish speakers.
wikipedia="nl:Brussel" makes Brussels a flamish speaking town with some french 
speakers.
So people may agreee on "wikipedia:fr" and "wikipedia:nl" for such an object 
instead.

Because problems of these kinds are common, the api does on purpose not 
distinguish any tags. Adding any kind of Wikipedia service to the main api may 
give precedence that OSM may prefer certain ways of tagging. Or just put 
unnecessary load on the main API, which uneccessary slows down editing.

However, a third party linking service is always fine.

Cheers,

Roland