[OSM-talk] Nominatim weakness

Andy Mabbett andy at pigsonthewing.org.uk
Tue Dec 15 19:41:14 UTC 2015


On 14 December 2015 at 08:25, Sarah Hoffmann <lonvia at denofr.de> wrote:

> Some helpful person has put a wikipedia link to the Starbucks
> wikipedia page on every single Starbucks in Japan.

That sounds like something that should be undone; mechanically if necessary

Better still,convert to franchise.wikidata=Q37158

> Having a wikipedia page boosts the importance
> of an object.

Does a Wikidata tag have the same effect? It should do.

> To make a long story short: it's a tagging error. The wikipedia tag
> should contain only links to wikipedia pages describing the object
> not to pages about the operator.

...but see franchise.wikidata, above.

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Andy Mabbett
@pigsonthewing
http://pigsonthewing.org.uk



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