[OSM-dev] start of the wikipedia import into open streetmap

[jamesmikedupont at googlemail.com]

On Sat, Jul 18, 2009 at 2:13 PM, Patrick Kilian<osm at petschge.de> wrote:
> Hi,
>
>> Goal is to extract all features from kosovo and to put them in open streetmap.
>> if we can find a server I will also host our own server for OSM data
>> for kosovo.
>
> In short: Don't do that.

I see.
Well, it is just a test, and I have only done some test data.
I can remove them, and of course, I am asking here first to make sure
we have this discussion.

>
> The reason: Wikipedia uses sources for the geo data that are deemed
> unsafe by the OSM community and which might expose OSM to (unnecessary)
> legal risks. So don't import data from wikipedia to OSM - expecially not
> in a big automated manner - unless you talked with the people on the
> legal mailinglist and got a "go ahead" from them.


Ok. I would like to do that. Ask i mean.

We dont need to put the data on the main osm server. I am fine with
hosting my own wikipedia osm dataset server.

The goal would be to limit the scope of this to the kosovo area, I
would like to put all the cities and historical sites on osm.

thanks,
mike