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wikimedia_commons
Description
Links to related Wikimedia Commons' media of the feature (syntax File:xxxxxx.xxx / Category:xxxxx).
Group:
annotations
Website
URL pattern
Used on these
elements
See also
wikipedia
=*
wikidata
=*
image
=*
Status:
de facto
wikimedia_commons
More details at tag
info
Tools for this tag
taginfo
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VN
overpass-turbo
QLever
Postpass via overpass-turbo
OSM Tag History
For links to images or other media found on
Wikimedia Commons
Contents
Usage
Examples
Wikidata
Use cases
Secondary Wikimedia Commons links
Support
Common tagging mistakes
Photos policy
See also
10
External links
11
References
Usage
Link to the (highest-level applicable) object-specific category where available; otherwise, link to a specific image or 3D model. Do not link to more generic categories such as "churches in Birmingham".
Note that adding several files separated by a semi-colon value separator (the
character) is
discouraged
because it's a character allowed in Wikimedia Commons filenames, such as
"File:Podlaskie - Białystok - Białystok - Raginisa 8 - cm Farny - kościół Chrystusa Zbawiciela - Front;daleko.jpg"
(currently used on OpenStreetMap
). So a client would have no way of knowing whether a semicolon represents a real semicolon in the file name or a separator between file names, so it follows the specification and treats it as part of the file name (as
Overpass
, the
OSM website
and Usage Bot do). This also makes difficult to identify broken links (because of typos or deletions) with external tools. If more images are available, just add the "best" one or create a new Wikimedia Commons gallery.
Video demonstrating how to add Wikimedia tags (including
wikimedia_commons
=*
to OSM objects. (Ogg Video; NL audio; EN subtitles, on Wikimedia Commons)
Examples
wikimedia_commons
File:Bicycle crossing, Poland, Kraków, Josepha Conrada.JPG
wikimedia_commons
Category:St Paul, Birmingham
Wikidata
Where possible, you may also add a
wikidata
=*
tag. Any notable and clearly identifiable material entity is allowed to have a Wikidata entry (See Wikidata's
notability guidelines
). A Wikidata entity would contain a statement about an
image
3D model
Commons category
, or
Commons gallery
being associated with the entity.
Adding
wikimedia_commons
=*
to an object that has
wikidata
=*
can be considered redundant because Wikidata itself often links to Wikimedia Commons. The vast majority of less experienced (newbies and occasional) users however is way more likely to understand the concept and importance of Wikimedia Commons than Wikidata. Even for experienced users, the human-readable value of
wikimedia_commons
=*
is easier to interpret.
Use cases
This can be useful for giving armchair mappers (some of which may be experienced validators) a better chance at understanding the object (a museum, unique house, bridge or memorial for example or even long distance cycle routes e.g.
162016
162016
) and eventually complement or correct tags. Especially useful when the object doesn't also have
wikipedia
=*
wikidata
=*
or
website
=*
tags or other easily available sources.
Note that these tags are not just intended for internal use! Linked content should therefore be suitable to be shown to end users.
Secondary Wikimedia Commons links
See also
Secondary Wikipedia links
and
Secondary Wikidata links
You may tag secondary attributes of a feature by preceding the
wikimedia_commons
=*
key with the name of the attribute, separated by a colon (
). The value of such a key would be the same as the normal
wikimedia_commons
=*
key but referring to the media file depicting the corresponding attribute — for example,
artist:wikimedia_commons
=*
brand:wikimedia_commons
=*
, etc.
For a list of all secondary attributes currently being tagged with this subkey, see
taginfo
Support
Values are clickable on the main website (since 2019-11-07)
Links to Wikimedia Commons works in
Overpass turbo
JOSM
can start a browser showing the linked image or category (select the tag, then right-click)
When you get the properties for an object in the
iD editor
you can click the link
OpenStreetBrowser
- also useful to find objects without any picture, just use the
"no image/wikimedia_commons OR wikidata without image"
filter in
“OpenStreetMap Quality Control > Culture-Media/Wikidata”
Historical Objects
OsmAnd
and OsmAnd Web
Organic Maps
and
CoMaps
Usage Bot
- A bot that creates and maintains
galleries
on Commons that record the use of files by OpenStreetMap.
HandleCommonsOnOSMBot
- A bot that tries to add OSM-related templates templates for Commons Files that are used on OpenStreetMap.
Open Etymology Map
and
Open Artist Map
Common tagging mistakes
Don't use URLs in values:
wikimedia_commons
The value is long, "unreadable" for a human.
Use instead
wikimedia_commons
File:Isaac Davis Monument.jpg
wikimedia_commons
An application can't find easily the licence, can't choose a better image size, can't display caption ….
Use instead
wikimedia_commons
File:Texas Woman's University September 2015 02 (Human Development Building).jpg
Photos policy
Example of an image considered to be within scope of Wikimedia Commons. Used on
node/3764331569
with
wikimedia_commons
File:Stojaki na Łobzowska x Biskupia.JPG
Community discussion at Commons has clarified the Commons policy
about inclusion of photographs of interest to OSM.
"Reasonable quality photographs of identified places are very unlikely to be considered not in scope"
"scope is very broadly defined. Reasonable quality photos of public places are generally considered to be in scope. So, please go ahead and upload those photos".
See also
Photo linking
- Create links between OSM features and external pictures
image
=*
- has simple syntax (File:*) for linking to individual images on Commons too, but is less safe.
mapillary
=*
- link to individual image in the Mapillary database
wikipedia
=*
- provides a link to Wikipedia's article about the feature.
wikidata
=*
- The ID of the Wikidata item about the feature.
Images related to OSM
, on Wikimedia Commons
CommonsChecker4OSM
- a tool to find OpenStreetMap elements tagged with non-existent wikimedia_commons categories. There's also a
MapRoulette challenge
wiki:symbol
=*
- Wikimedia Commons files can be used as value.
External links
overpass-turbo.eu/s/1evZ
- query detecting some obviously malformed wikimedia_commons tags in a given area. There's also a MapRoulette challenge:
"Check and fix wikimedia_commons syntax"
References
As 23 feb 2023 in
way/303997428 v4
Issue 7131 (Show photos from Wikidata)
, OsmAnd GitHub
Issue 9585 (Show photos from Wikimedia Commons)
, OsmAnd GitHub
Test version only at the moment
Applications that use OSM data and linked Wikimedia Commons images?
, OpenStreetMap Community Forum
commons:Commons:Project scope
7.0
7.1
"realistically useful for an educational purpose" - how broadly/narrowly it is defined?
, Commons:Village pump/Archive/2016/11
Retrieved from "
Categories
Key descriptions for group "annotations"
Key descriptions
Key descriptions with status "de facto"
Annotations
World wide external reference tag
Wikimedia Commons
Hidden categories:
Pages unavailable in Italian
Pages unavailable in Dutch
Item with no description in language RU
Item with no description in language UK
Item with no description in language FI
Item with no description in language NL
Item with no description in language HU
Item with no description in language ZH-HANT
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