wikidata-osm-talk

short demo of approach to release open data to osm and wikidata simultaneously

the idea is to publish open datasets in both databases including reciprocal links:

• a wikidata=* tag in osm
• an OSM relation ID property in wikidata

the current proposal within osm is that osm relations best represent permanence as they relate a concept; this underpins the choice of OSM relation ID as the reciprocal link in wikidata

using relations poses a challenge for a data controller adding a node or way to osm+wikidata, because they would also have to make it a relation: (a) stable node or way will need a "fake relation" encapsulating it, creating redundance in the OSM data model and overloading OSM infrastructure