[OSM-talk] Adding Wikidata tags to 70k items automatically

[Andy Mabbett]

On 28 August 2014 09:09, Simon Poole <simon at poole.ch> wrote:

> What you do avoid by not tagging in OSM is
> maintenance (given that OSM objects are not
> necessarily a persistent reference to a single real
> world entity).

Very few Wikidata IDs will change (far fewer than Wikipedia article
names, for instance; and far fewer than IDs or other tags in OSM).

Again, this is a statistically-insignificant edge-case.

> And maintenance would include adding a wikidata tag
> to new objects in OSM, which for the next years likely
> going to be the largest source of errors.

On what basis do you assert that?

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Andy Mabbett
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