Wikidata:Property proposal/GERS ID

GERS ID

Description	Global Entity Reference System (GERS) identifier, created and maintained by the Overture Maps Foundation
Represents	GERS ID (Q121705182)
Data type	External identifier
Domain	geographical feature (Q618123)
Allowed values	[a-z0-9]{32}
Example 1	Reichstag (Q151897)→08b1f1d488708fff0200bf6d40c1cf8f
Example 2	Brandenburg Gate (Q82425)→08b1f1d488601fff02002aee6ba961a4
Example 3	Berlin (Q64)→0851d7537fffffff01f0a6a39902a5ce
Source	https://docs.overturemaps.org/gers/, https://explore.overturemaps.org/
Distinct-values constraint	yes

The GERS ID (Q121705182) is intended to be a stable identifier to associate external data to an Overture Maps Data (Q121493528) element. The identifier has been developed and is maintained by the Data Working Group (Q121493561), a working group of the Overture Maps Foundation (Q115725620). --Robot8A (talk) 14:00, 17 October 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Question Robot8A: do we have a URL format for the IDs? Samoasambia ✎ 01:42, 13 November 2024 (UTC)[reply]
AFAIK, there is not. Robot8A (talk) 12:05, 13 November 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Filed a feature request. —Sascha (talk) 16:44, 5 December 2024 (UTC)[reply]
Thank you! Do we want to wait and see what happens with the feature request or should we go ahead with creation of the property anyways? Samoasambia ✎ 00:14, 17 December 2024 (UTC)[reply]
I note that someone has commented on the feture request that "this is more or less exactly what we're hoping to build next year". Samoasambia ✎ 05:23, 27 December 2024 (UTC)[reply]
Support I support this property in principle, to complement other external references such as Google Maps Customer ID (P3749), Foursquare City Guide venue ID (P1968), and OpenStreetMap node ID (P11693). Overture's latest release advertises hundreds of millions of features, presumably with as many GERS IDs, which would exacerbate the current scalability issues in Blazegraph. Is it a fair assumption that this property would only enrich existing items or new items that otherwise meet Wikidata's notability criteria? If so, Wikidata property for an identifier that does not imply notability (Q62589320) should be added to the eventual property. – Minh Nguyễn ^💬 01:11, 23 December 2024 (UTC)[reply]