Tagging Choices for My Urban Recycling Trekking
oldnab द्वारा English में 22 अगस्त 2025 पर पोस्ट किया गया।(english translation by OpenAI/chatgpt)
RETEX: Tagging Choices for My Urban Recycling Trekking
Hesitations, discussions, collisions with other contributors, changes, hesitations… but convergence.
to be continued maybe:
- journal entry (upcoming): Existential questions about my encounter with Panoramax
At first, tagging the operator since it’s the target of the trekking.
The operator is known here as GPSEO, or GPS\&O, or Grand Paris Seine and/& Oise… Which name to choose? Likewise, I encountered clothing containers from Le Relais or Emmaüs, and again, which names should be used?
my encounter with Wikidata
Thanks to the forum, I was guided towards Wikidata, which allows assigning a unique code to a large number of resources (companies, operators, municipalities, associations, widely known people, …).
Once the resource in question is given a Wikidata code, its Wikidata entry contains important data (name, website, Wikipedia reference, revenue, …) and thus allows all Wikipedia collaborative applications to access these elements in a common way. So it is enough to reference the operator’s Wikidata code in OSM tags to identify it uniquely and stably. From this code, it’s easy to retrieve the operator’s website, its Wikipedia reference, and other useful information without having to explicitly add them as OSM tags (which would require updating OSM every time the data changes).
A single concession seems necessary: I retrieved the operator’s official name from its Wikidata entry and added it as an OSM tag for readability.
And therefore:
operator=GRAND PARIS SEINE ET OISE
operator:wikidata=Q19945071
Tags deliberately omitted because the information is evolving and can be found in the operator’s Wikidata article:
operator:wikipedia, operator:website, operator:short
And similarly:
operator=Emmaüs
operator:wikidata=Q989437
operator=Le Relais
operator:wikidata=Q16654240