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3. May 2018 22:49 by <a href="mailto:jmatazzoni@wikimedia.org" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">jmatazzoni@wikimedia.org</a>:<br /><br /><blockquote class="tutanota_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid #93A3B8; padding-left: 10px; margin-left: 5px;">I’d very much like to get your suggestions for a short list of Help links on OSM—pages you think a user coming in to add multilingual names would find useful. Also please send your thoughts about any information you think I particularly should impart. <br /></blockquote><p><br /></p><p>1) Don't be afraid to ask (though, as usually, checking <br /></p><p>standards tutorials before doing that is a good idea) - <br /></p><p>see <a href="https://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Get_help" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">https://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Get_help</a></p><p>for example of list of help pages/forums.</p><p><br /></p><p>2) Note that OSM is stricter on copyright that Wikipedia or Wikidata.</p><p><br /></p><p>It is OK to copy from any printed map or Google maps - it is even <br /></p><p>encouraged in Wikipedia[1] and it is utterly unacceptable in OSM[2].</p><p><br /></p><p>It applies also to data that were copied from copyrighted databases into</p><p>Wikidata (some went through Wikipedias).<br /></p><p><br /></p><p>[1] <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Obtaining_geographic_coordinates" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Obtaining_geographic_coordinates</a><br /></p><p>[2] <a href="https://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Copyright#Proprietary_data" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">https://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Copyright#Proprietary_data</a><br /></p> </body>
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