[OSM-talk] Can wikidata links help fight name inflation?

Andy Mabbett andy at pigsonthewing.org.uk
Thu May 28 21:04:26 UTC 2015


On 28 May 2015 at 09:50, SomeoneElse <lists at atownsend.org.uk> wrote:
> On 27/05/2015 22:56, Andy Mabbett wrote:
>>
>> A demonstrator, using Wikidata labels, is:
>> http://googleknowledge.github.io/qlabel/demo/map/ (choose "select
>> language"). Coders might enjoy viewing the source code.

> That's interesting, but seems just to do multiple http transactions to get
> the names it needs (something that's not really scalable).

As I said, it's a *demonstrator*. It's not meant to scale.

> What I'd
> typically want to do with wikidata would be something like:
>
> 1) define a series of properties that I'm interested in.

> Unfortunately I don't
> see this in any sort of sensible format - I just see a bunch of web pages
> like http://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:List_of_properties which isn't
> really helpful.

I'm not sure what you're looking for.


> I suspect that these are problems that someone, somewhere has already
> solved

Indeed.

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