I think wikidata has the potential to tie it all together. There is no need to split the information over 2 databases.

What would be nice, is a way to say: this object is now split/merged. Save the current version in OSM and save the historic version of those objects in OHM. And all the metadata and in wikidata. Then point from OSM and OHM to wikidata. Use Overpass to retrieve the relevant objects based on their ids in wikidata.

Polyglot

2014-03-20 11:51 GMT+01:00 David Cuenca <dacuetu@gmail.com>:

On Thu, Mar 20, 2014 at 9:45 AM, Gerard Meijssen <gerard.meijssen@gmail.com> wrote:

A similar thing can be considered for streets and stuff as well. Obviously it needs a lot of thought but from an abstract point of view, a street or an image, it is just another category of data. When it works for one type of data it could / should work for another type of data as well.

In that regard perhaps it would make more sense for OSM or another entity to run a Wikibase Repository dedicated exclusively to geographic entities/names.

Thanks,
Micru

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