Changeset: 43885098
Set Wikidata ID for admin_level=6 regions Europe
Closed by nyuriks
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created_by | JOSM/1.5 (11223 en) |
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Discussion
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Comment from SomeoneElse
Hi,
I've noticed that https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q203889 has a property "OpenStreetMap Relation ID=158392".
Is that (a) a good idea, given that OSM IDs may change and (b) ODBL compliant (see http://www.openstreetmap.org/copyright)?
Obviously this isn't directly related to the change you've made here, but I thought that you might know the answer.
Incidentally, Luton doesn't seem to have the same problem as Nottingham in wikidata in that the wikidata entry is for both the "town" and the "admin area". -
Comment from nyuriks
LOL :) https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Properties_for_deletion#OpenStreetMap_Relation_identifier_.28P402.29 - i repeatedly said that property should be deleted, but some insist that it is needed because it is hard to do database joins (causing data duplication and ambiguity and mistakes instead) :(
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Comment from nyuriks
Btw, please comment there with your opinion. I am not personally too sure the legal argument has merit (referencing something by its ID vs copying a significant portion of the database - I suspect only later has the database legal protection in some jurisdictions, but IANAL), but the stability argument has been made repeatedly by many people. Plus having two way links are bound to create data consistency issues.
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Comment from nyuriks
My colleague helped me with this nice query - gets all of the admin/sub-admin/sub-sub... regions for any country. We could add some other fun things like geo coordinates for validation, or just compare with the names. https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/User:Yurik/Admin_regions
- Herefordshire (10187), v390
- Suffolk (28595), v321
- Catanzaro (39637), v23
- Crotone (39748), v28
- Cosenza (39788), v20
- Lecce (40094), v65
- Potenza (40136), v21
- Salerno (40217), v55
- Matera (40259), v13
- Taranto (40423), v16
- Brindisi (40485), v21
- Napoli (40600), v109
- Bari (40707), v44
- Avellino (40715), v31
- Latina (40783), v55
- Caserta (40940), v20
- Benevento (40973), v30
- Foggia (41093), v32
- Frosinone (41223), v21
- Campobasso (41255), v22
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