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

Andy Mabbett andy at pigsonthewing.org.uk
Thu May 28 21:10:21 UTC 2015


On 28 May 2015 at 10:41, Frederik Ramm <frederik at remote.org> wrote:

> I just hope that Wikidata doesn't list "New Brige" as
> the "English name" of "Pont Neuf" or else they have a problem ;)

It alls it "Pont neuf":

   https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q335277

and has a property that tells you that that is its official name,
which is in the French language.

At some point, it will have a property that tells you that the name
/means/ "New Bridge".

> It is my impression that a large proportion of name:xx tags in OSM are
> added by "naming specialists" who do little else than large scale name
> additions; it would probably not be too much to ask for them to indulge
> Wikidata instead of OSM.

Please do!

> if a mapper is of the
> opinion that no matching Wikidata object exists for an OSM feature, then
> they shouldn't use a wikidata tag, that much is clear!

Or they could, if suitable, crate a WIkidata item...

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Andy Mabbett
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