Hi,
[ Aude and Christian Consonni, this should especially interest you. ]
I was throwing around ideas with a friend about how OpenStreetMap could be
integrated with Wikidata.
The thing that I care the most in any software is internationalization.
Having a map in which all labels of towns, streets and everything else is
translated to all languages sounds like a super-wonderful thing.
Wikidata allows labeling everything, translating everything, and attaching
properties to everything, so it sounds like it could be a good match.
But then the question of "what IS everything" came up. Wikidata was created
mostly with Wikipedia in mind, so Wikipedia's notability policies
influenced Wikidata. Roughly, Wikidata has items for every thing about
which there is, or can be, a Wikipedia article and for things that are
useful, or if it "fulfills some structural need
<https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Notability>".
Towns obviously have or can a Wikipedia article about them, but probably
not every street or shop. But do they fulfill a structural need or is it
way too much?
If it's way too much, how can this be bridged, or federated, or whatever
the current popular word is? I don't even know exactly how does OSM store
labels and translations now, but it sounds like another instance of
Wikibase, if not Wikidata itself, can be used for it.
I don't have much to add, but I'd love to hear ideas from people who do
(again, Aude and Christian Consonni, I'm looking at you :) ).
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