[OSM-talk] OSMdata / OSMbase instance

Cristian Consonni kikkocristian at gmail.com
Thu May 28 11:00:37 UTC 2015


Hi,

2015-05-28 12:42 GMT+02:00 Jo <winfixit at gmail.com>:
> I'm following discussions on several mailing lists and an idea is starting
> to form to help solve some of our growing pains.
>
> I think it would be interesting to contemplate setting up our own instance
> of WikiData.
>
> Wikidata could then link to entries in it and vice versa for the items which
> are 1:1 matches.
>
> We could have dedicated entities for streets, for addresses, for PT stops
> and their surroundings, for PT lines.
>
> From there we could link to objects in OSM. The problem with that is that
> when ways become split the editor needs to decide whether the OSMdata link
> is still valid. Same deal for merges.
>
> Of course, at the moment we use relations for some of these and we could
> create new types of relations for others, but they are deemed too
> complicated and they are rather fragile. Also the tendency seems to be to
> abolish stuff like associatedStreet and simply go the way of repeating data
> over and over. Or to say: do spatial queries and hope for the best.
>
> So, on the one hand I see it as a bridge to Wikidata, on the other I see it
> as a way to solve some growing pains we're having to maintain more and more
> data we're amassing.

I agree. this was my proposal from September last year:
https://lists.openstreetmap.org/pipermail/talk/2014-September/070871.html

Of course the editing/syncing part is difficult but maybe it can
initially tried just as viewing tool.

Another relevant link:
https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Grants_talk:IdeaLab/OSMdata:_a_Wikidata-like_editor_for_OpenStreetMap

C



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