On Tuesday 28 November 2017, Eugene Alvin Villar wrote: > [...] > but Wikidata is increasingly becoming a central hub for linking > various disparate databases together via their primary identifiers.
As said before this is not correct regarding data as we have it in OSM or in most other geo-databases. Quoting once more from my previous analysis: > * Wikidata is definitely not suited as an universal meta-database > connecting OSM with other open data sets. This is because of the > Notability concept > (https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Notability) which practically > means the vast majority of the >500 million tagged features in OSM > will never be able to get a Wikidata ID and will therefore never be > able to be connected to other data sets through Wikidata. -- Christoph Hormann http://www.imagico.de/ _______________________________________________ Tagging mailing list Tagging@openstreetmap.org https://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/tagging
