[OSM-talk] Wikidata accuracy (Was: MAPS.ME edits - partly sub-standard)

[Dave F]

I'm surprised Wikidata is different to Wikipedia. I thought the former 
was derived from the latter.
(btw The 7,172,036 figure isn't the latest data in Wikidata)

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/London

Cheers
Dave F


On 26/08/2016 11:57, Martin Koppenhoefer wrote:
>
> 2016-08-26 12:20 GMT+02:00 Dave F <davefoxfac63 at btinternet.com 
> <mailto:davefoxfac63 at btinternet.com>>:
>
>     All tags can get filled with useless data.
>
>     Good use of tag:
>     http://www.openstreetmap.org/node/107775
>     <http://www.openstreetmap.org/node/107775>
>
>
>
>
> btw, there seem to be some less useful tags also on this node, at 
> least there's a slight redundancy and these could eventually be pulled 
> from wikidata (or determined spatially in the first case) when needed:
> is_in:country 
> <http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Key:is%20in:country?uselang=en-US> 
> United Kingdom
>
> is_in:country_code 
> <http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Key:is%20in:country%20code?uselang=en-US> 
> GB
>
> is_in:iso_3166_2 GB-ENG
>
>
> On the other hand I have noticed that wikidata has this population: 
> 7,172,036 while osm has 8.416.535, for wikidata the most recent figure 
> is from 2001 so ours is likely more recent and relying completely on 
> wikidata for some tags seems still a bit too early.
>
> Cheers,
> Martin

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