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

[Jo]

I don't think Wikidata will deem all businesses in the world noteworthy
enough for inclusion. In our own instance of OSMdata we can include
whatever we like, of course.

businesses
addresses as first class citizens
streets
PT stops, routes and we may even be able to figure out a way to include
time tables
the sky is the limit

Jo

2015-05-29 18:43 GMT+02:00 Andrew Guertin <andrew.guertin at uvm.edu>:

> On 05/27/2015 05:13 PM, Frederik Ramm wrote:
>
>> We are a database of geodata [...]
>>
>
>  Would it not be better to record the wikidata link for London, and
>> then (perhaps in co-operation with people at Wikidata) provide means
>> for people doing map rendering to join OSM data with a
>> separately-loaded translation table from Wikidata?
>>
>
> Would this be restricted to just names?
>
> I can imagine a world where no information about businesses is stored in
> OSM. OSM has a geometry and a wikidata link. Wikidata says what kind of
> business it is, what its name is, what its contact info it, what its
> opening hours are, etc.
>
> That would be a very different world from the one we live in. In lieu of
> listing them all out, I will just say I can see many benefits to living in
> that world, and many benefits to what we have now.
>
> Is that a goal of this integration?
>
> I've been thinking about this for a while, so I have a lot of questions
> based on the answer...
>
> --Andrew
>
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