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

[Andy Mabbett]

On 29 August 2014 16:33, Simon Poole <simon at poole.ch> wrote:

> To use one of your examples were you claim that
> manual intervention is required: a name that has a
> so common spelling that it is used in that form in
> wikidata, clearly should have that spelling in OSM
> proper too

St John's
St John's Church
St John's Parish Church
Saint John's
Saint John's Church
Saint John's Parish Church
Church of St John
Church of Saint John
etc.
etc.

We can't account for every possible permutation.

> As has already been pointed out: the whole effort cannot
> be about moving information that belongs in OSM to
> the database of a completely separate
> project with different goals and structures.

Indeed. Who has suggested it should be?

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Andy Mabbett
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