Wikidata:Property proposal/NVE Elvenett elvID

NVE River Network elvID

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Originally proposed at Wikidata:Property proposal/Natural science

DescriptionUnique identifier for rivers and tributaries in NVE River Network
RepresentsNVE Elvenett (ELVIS) (Q58876342)
Data typeExternal identifier
Domainriver (Q4022) : of (P642) : Norway (Q20), and also natural watercourse (Q55659167) : of (P642) : Norway (Q20). For international rivers it also applies to some rivers in Sweden (Q34), Finland (Q33) and Russia (Q159)
Allowed valuesString
Example 1Glomma (Q214535) → 002-34-1
Example 2Isoa (Q19342031) → 002-34-32253
Example 3Ropelva (Q34533097) → 246-43-1
Example 4Simoa (Q829748) → 012-1-12982
Example 5Sagelva (Q28720485) → 167-61-1 -->
Sourcehttps://temakart.nve.no/link/?link=elvenett
https://www.nve.no/karttjenester/kartdata/vassdragsdata/elvenettverk-elvis/
https://atlas.nve.no/html5Viewer/?viewer=nveatlas
Planned useas authority control and identificator
Number of IDs in sourceunknown, but at least 10,000.
Expected completenesseventually complete (Q21873974)
See alsoNVE Drainage Basin (REGINE) ID (P4528) NVE Lake Database ID (P5079)

Motivering/begrunnelse

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Using this identifier allows for far more accurate sourcing of information about rivers in Norway, as opposed to the more fuzzy "Stated in NVE River Network (ELVIS) (Q58876342)". Geanixx (talk) 12:17, 1 June 2020 (UTC)[reply]

Discussion

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@Geanixx, Pmt: NVE River Network (ELVIS) ID (P8348) has been created. Pamputt (talk) 04:55, 18 June 2020 (UTC)[reply]