[OSM-talk] "Keulen" (was Re: Can wikidata links help fight name inflation?)

[Frederik Ramm]

Hi,

On 05/30/2015 08:59 AM, Roland Olbricht wrote:
> Please note that
> - I had no internet connectivity in that situation, hence "wikidata",
> any other external database or even non-copied OSM data was not an option.

Well: The data on your device will most certainly have been
preprocessed; you weren't using a raw .osm.pbf file.

Whoever does the preprocessing is of course free to join OSM data with
any other database; so if for example we agreed that Wikidata was our
name repository of choice and we'd reduce our own name:xx tagging to
what is used by the people living in a place, then there would have been
a wikidata tag on the "Köln" node and the software that generated your
offline database could have made a choice whether, and to what degree,
to include the Wikidata name catalogue in your offline data set.

Bye
Frederik

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