> would tighter integration between Wikidata and OSM help > with this situation

The licenses are incompatible.

Yes of course! May be - but in OSM it is common sense, that coordinates are *facts* which are not involved/infected by copyrights :-) OSM is the most accurate and biggest free DB about coordinates. So it is the best source for the WM-space. Cooperation and data sharing between OSM and WM is a "must"... If there is a difficulty concerning definitions, the WMF and the OSMF have to solve together it in a better way :-) Bests, Markus _______________________________________________ Wikidata mailing list Wikidata(a)lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikidata

2016-10-07 20:34 GMT+02:00 Denny Vrandečić <vrandecic(a)gmail.com>om>: Wikidata allows to set a coordinate system - it is called a globe or coordinate system - on every coordinate. This would be the natural place to specify whether it is WGS84 or GDA94 or another system. Most of them are Q2, which, as per data model, is indeed WGS84 Hi Denny, can you be more specific about this? So when there is no explicit value in the *globe* parametre of GlobeCoordinate, then it is treated as Q2 (this corelates with the dumps and every RDF serialization)? It would imply geographic coordinates (not the same as WGS84!!). Or is it considered to be specifically WGS84, which is Q11902211? And how you tell the coordinate system for other celestial bodies like Q111 (Mars) or Q2565 (Titan)? Thanks a lot Jan _______________________________________________ Wikidata mailing list Wikidata(a)lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikidata