[OSM-talk] Good practice, and should we rely on defaults?

[Sarah Hoffmann]

On Wed, Apr 06, 2022 at 08:59:20AM -0400, Brian M. Sperlongano wrote:
> We need to establish good ways to make country-wide (or region-wide)
> > defaults available in a machine-readable way. Tagging those defaults
> > onto every single object in one country because the default in this
> > country might be different from the default in the next country would
> > (a) create too much data inflation and (b) mean an edit orgy every time
> > the default changes in a place.
> 
> 
> Wikidata is a sensible place to store this information as it is here today,
> performant, and OSM data consumers are already using it to conflate
> externally-linked data with OSM.  It would be very straightforward to
> document something like a default speed limit in a city using wikidata.

Our wiki has a wikidata extension already, e.g.
https://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Item:Q4819

If any, then that would be the wikidata database to use. It directly
reflects our tagging schema and we have full control over the layout.

Sarah