wikidata-osm is a nice visual tool but it’s not suitable to fixing problems The whole tool only gives you a vague hint on what could be referenced to Wikidata by mistake, it is not a validator by any means. As for “Large red circles mean the distance is greater than 10 kilometers, which indicates a higher error rate” .. errr no not an error rate but a large discrepancy between the two. Some wikidata objects are a very long way from their actual location: see node/1244940858. Likely because the originator of a wikipedia article copied over information from another article & forgot to change the lat/long information.

Thanks everyone for the feedback. Yes, it is correct to say that larger distances don’t necessarily indicate an error. To avoid confusing users, the tool has been renamed to ‘Wikidata-OSM Distance Visualizer’ to focus on the distance based visualization and all the possible cases of a large match distance has been documented in the readme with examples.

It would be upto the local OSM or Wikidata community to analyze the reason for the large distance based on the context one uses the tool for.

By using Maproulette, nodes could be either marked valid, invalid or fixed.

That sounds like a great idea to take forward to integrate into a tasking tool. It would be great to hear suggestions on what would be a practical way to get started on this.

Thanks BushmanK for correcting me. Yes, the appropriate term is tagging.