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

Edward Betts edward at 4angle.com
Sat Aug 30 16:20:59 UTC 2014


SomeoneElse <lists at mail.atownsend.org.uk> wrote:
> * Personally, I'm actually fairly agnostic about the process of adding
> wikidata tags - I can't really see what I'd use them for myself, but am open
> to the possibility that someone could use them for something.  However, an
> important part of things in OSM is surely that they are on-the-ground
> verifiable - wikipedia has articles for villages in the UK that don't exist,
> as do the OS OpenData StreetView maps, and people have added garbage data
> from both to OSM.  How do we know that the wikidata items for which links
> are added are accurate?

I'm going to add wikidata tags to existing OSM objects. There is no risk of
adding villages that don't exist, because I'm not going to add any new
entities to OSM.

-- 
Edward.



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