Hello,

I am forwarding this email to this list because I think this is a place where I may be able to find somebody interested with the required skills, sorry if this is not the case and/or this is not the right place.

I would like to hear your fefedback (but please consider to use the discussion page on meta for that).

Thanks,

Cristian ---------- Forwarded message ---------- From: Cristian Consonni kikkocristian@gmail.com Date: 2014-09-12 11:41 GMT+02:00 Subject: OSMdata: a Wikidata-like editor for OpenStreetMap To: OSM talk@openstreetmap.org

Hi all

The (long) discussion about importing Wikidata tags in OSM has prompted this idea into my mind: https://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/OSMdata

I have also describe here in the IdeaLab on meta-wiki: https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Grants:IdeaLab/OSMdata:_a_Wikidata-like_edit...

Here's a quick summary:

== What == * using a MediaWiki + Wikibase - let's call it OSMdata[*] - install to host an item about every single object in OSM (following this schema Nxxx for nodes, Wxxx for ways, Rxxx for relations). * claims in a OSMdata page about an item map exactly to key, values pairs for the same object in OSM. * OSMdata is synchronized and kept up-to-date with the OSM database (read) * users can login in OSMdata with their OSM account and contribute, adding new claims this are saved back automatically in the OSM database (write)

== Rationale == * it seems awesome (!) * the OSM community gains a new editor for OpenStreetMap, an editor which use a well known interface and which can get all the benefits of MediaWiki+Wikibase software development * Wikibase is tested at 60x its current scale * Wikibase is used in another big project

Let me stress again that I see OSMdata as being an editor, not a repository for OSM, in fact I image in it to be a specialized editor to be used for editing tags. In my view the idea is to provide a well known interface to edit OSM (both manually and automatically with bots, using the same bot frameworks already available for editing Wikidata).

I have described this idea in the talk-it malling list (in Italian) and a (at least conceptual) similarity has been pointed out towards the textual editor Level0[2].

I would like to know your opinion, and I would also like to set up some prototype with a small subset of the data. I tried to set up this myself but, unfortunately, I am blocked on the first obstacle, i.e.: how can I tell Wikibase to let me create items with names Nxxx, Wxxx and Rxxx instead of Qxxx? I do not know enough PHP (nor MediaWiki or Wikibase) to do this myself. Any help in this direction would be much appreciated.

Ciao,

Cristian

[*] any reference to Wikidata is purely intentional [1] https://lists.openstreetmap.org/pipermail/talk-it/2014-September/044540.html