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

[moltonel 3x Combo]

On 28/05/2015, Andrew Guertin <andrew.guertin at uvm.edu> wrote:
> Considering the existence of the former Soviet Union, and especially
> that there are areas of Ukraine where both Russian and Ukrainian are
> spoken and most roads, places, etc have names (and thus tags) in both
> languages, this number of 582,653 name:ru tags is hard to interpret.
>
>
> My skill with overpass-turbo isn't the best, but I was able to
> relatively easily limit a search to a bounding box around North and
> South America. Within that box, a search returned 2648 nodes and 909
> ways with name:ru (relations timed out).

Taginfo offers a quick way to view this:
http://taginfo.osm.org/search?q=name
http://taginfo.osm.org/keys/name%3Aen#map
http://taginfo.osm.org/keys/name%3Aru#map
http://taginfo.osm.org/keys/int_name#map
http://taginfo.osm.org/keys/name%3Aja#map
http://taginfo.osm.org/keys/name%3Ade#map
http://taginfo.osm.org/keys/name%3Afr#map
http://taginfo.osm.org/keys/name%3Aar#map