[OSM-talk] 112k Wikidata tags to add to OSM
Edward Betts
edward at 4angle.com
Fri Sep 5 09:49:18 UTC 2014
Archer <arch3r at gulli.com> wrote:
> There is a difference between municipality and settlements like villages.
> Wikipedia articles are often about the whole municipality and not about a
> single village. So the wikidata-tag should only be tagged onto the
> administrative relation for the municipality
>
> Please do not add any Wikidata-Tags to German villages/municipality. This
> would cause a big mess as the mismatch list shows.
>
> I'd oppose this import at all at the moment. There are currently 21533
> objects with wikidata tags in the OSM database at the moment. Your
> algorithm produces 2393 mismatches. This is a error rate of 10 % !!
>
> I think it's better to have not so much wikidata-tags in our database than
> about 11000 wrong tags.
Don't be alarmed, this is a work in progress. I'm not going to add any
wikidata tags until we have reached a consensus.
--
Edward.
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