[OSM-talk] The benefits of cross-linking OSM and Wikidata

[Oleksiy Muzalyev]

On 03-Mar-20 17:17, Andy Mabbett wrote:
> Some of you will remember, around five years ago, a debate about
> whether or not we should add Wikidata IDs to OSM.
>
> We did, and so here's "EqualStreetNames.Brussels", an example of what
> is now possible:
>
>     https://equalstreetnames.brussels/en/index.html
>
> It shows streets in Brussels named after men and women, visualized
> with data from OpenStreetMap and Wikidata.
>
> Does anyone have other good examples?
>
I wrote a simple tool, which allows to view the Wikidata items, which 
have the coordinates in the items themselves, on the OSM map:

http://ausleuchtung.ch/geo_wiki/?lat=46.66761954912767&lng=6.472320556640626&zm=13&lang=en&ds=wkd&rd=3

It is done via the MediaWikiAPI (in areas with large concentration of 
Wikidata items reduce the radius from 10 to 2 or even to 1 km).

It is possible not only to add the Wikidata IDs to the OSM map, but also 
to add (or verify) the geographical coordinates in the Wikidata items 
themselves, so that they could be viewed on the OSM map via this and 
other similar tools.

Another thing, - quite often a Wikidata item may happen not to have a 
title, i.e. its label in English was not created yet (in this case, this 
tool shows "en title is absent"  on the geo-marker text). However, it is 
relatively easy to add the label's translation in English and also in 
other languages for a Wikidata item. In other words, some Wikidata items 
themselves may benefit from attention.