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

[joost schouppe]

Hi Andy,

Nice to see the project picked up here. It was a fun one to be involved in.

Note that it works based on a mix. The core of the program is "take the
streets, find the etymology tag, query wikidata for the person, then their
gender". But we do have a csv with the streetnames and their associated
gender.
The gender in the CSV was assigned by humans, based on websearching.
Automatic approaches don't always work, since several streets just have a
last name but are in fact named after a single person, not a family.
In the long run, it would be awesome if all these humans get their wiki
page. We didn't have the time to make that happen in this project. Se we
only added wikidata tags to OpenStreetMap in cases where the q-number was
already available.
Note that we didn't need to use any OSM data for improving Wikidata in this
project.

Some cool things this project entails:
- I've seen a prototype that works without the CSV. So it works around the
globe; the only thing needed to make it work is adding the wikidata tags in
OSM
- this approach can be first step to making all sorts of nifty maps, like
colouring the streets named after people in a certain profession, or from a
certain century. Or make a map where neighborhoods show up where the
streets are named after flowers or birds.

For more info on the project see
https://github.com/openknowledgebe/equalstreetnames
(Issues welcome of course)
We had a few contacts with GeoChicas, but Jonathan decided to build from
scratch. Exactly because of the focus on the wikidata approach - the list
of names is a fallback only. I hope we can do some more exchange of
experience soon.

Joost
Note: I only helped to convince the people involved to use OpenStreetMap,
and supported the project here and there

Op di 3 mrt. 2020 om 17:21 schreef Andy Mabbett <andy at pigsonthewing.org.uk>:

> 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?
>
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