[OSM-talk] Name challenge - what to call the new OSM+Wikidata service?

Blake Girardot HOT/OSM blake.girardot at hotosm.org
Sun Sep 17 15:32:48 UTC 2017


On Sun, Sep 17, 2017 at 9:57 AM, Yves <yvecai at gmail.com> wrote:
> So, no OpenSparqlMap, then? :(
> Sad, this policy definitely broke something.
> Yves
>

I agree 100%

Respectfully,
blake


> Le 17 septembre 2017 12:58:12 GMT+02:00, Blake Girardot
> <bgirardot at gmail.com> a écrit :
>>
>> Hi,
>>
>> How does this relate to the new draft trademark policy?
>>
>> I can't tell from the draft policy, but I believe that OSM at least is
>> a protected mark, not sure about osm.
>>
>> But I do think Simone Poole asked the community to stop naming things
>> with osm trademarks in them or variations on openstreetmap phrase.
>>
>> Cheers
>> blake
>>
>> On Sat, Sep 16, 2017 at 5:11 PM, Yuri Astrakhan <yuriastrakhan at gmail.com>
>> wrote:
>>>
>>>  The new service is getting more and more usage, but it lacks the most
>>>  important thing - a good name.  So far my two choices are:
>>>
>>>  * wikosm
>>>  * wikidosm
>>>
>>>  Suggestions?  Votes?  The service combines Wikidata and OpenStreetMap
>>>  databases, and uses SPARQL (query language) to search it, so might be
>>> good
>>>  to reflect that in the name.
>>>
>>>  https://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Wikidata%2BOSM_SPARQL_query_service
>>>
>>>  P.S.  I know this is the hardest problem after off-by-one and caching...
>>>
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>>
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