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

[Martin Koppenhoefer]

> Am 29.05.2015 um 15:55 schrieb Komяpa <me at komzpa.net>:
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> What exactly are we trying to save by omitting these locales, what wasn't eaten already by source= on French buildings? :)


yes, and there are more tags that are both, used more often and are more questionable than name:ru tags, e.g.
tiger:name_base
tiger:name_type
osak:street_name
osak:municipality_name
addr:street:name

even of tiger:name_base_1 there are more than a million, almost double the amount of all Russian names in osm.

These are followed by a lot crap in the same quantity order, like KSJ2:filename (!) ~500K

All these came to light by a single taginfo search for "name", needless to say similar import crap can be found for different keys as well. Many of them are not even documented.

cheers 
Martin