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

[Edward Betts]

Frederik Ramm <frederik at remote.org> wrote:
> What we have here is a third-party database whose object identifiers we
> add to OSM as tags in order to make linking things easier.
> 
> This is something that has often been requested by people but never been
> granted on a large scale because we always said that it would be an
> abuse of our database and our mapper's patience to offload everyone's
> and their dog's linking requirements onto us.

What about all the references listed in this table? 

http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Key:ref#Key_variations

There are 79k instances of the ref:INSEE key in OpenStreetMap.

http://taginfo.openstreetmap.org/keys/ref%3AINSEE

-- 
Edward.