Even More Intersections Between OpenStreetMap and Wikidata

A few days ago, I wrote about the intersection between OpenStreetMap and Wikidata, introducing my newly developed tool, MyWikidataList, which allows users to manage their personal lists of Wikidata items. For some reason, the tool uses OpenStreetMap accounts for authentication.Then, yesterday, while editing this week’s edition of WeeklyOSM, I stumbled upon DinoData, a custom Wikidata editor repurposed as an OpenStreetMap tag editor. The tool is hosted on Toolforge, Wikimedia’s cloud platform, which hosts plenty of other Wikidata-related tools.Yet another unexpected intersection between OSM and Wikidata! With MyWikidataList, you use an OSM account to log in to a Wikidata-related tool. With Dinodata, you can edit OSM data using a tool hosted on a platform primarily associated with Wikidata tools, and whose interface originally came from a Wikidata editor.These discoveries inspired me to make several updates across my OSM-related and Wikidata-related tools today.First, I started with…

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