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

[andrzej zaborowski]

2009/7/18 Patrick Kilian <osm at petschge.de>:
>>>> 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 guess I should have added a "please" here...
>> 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.
> Which is a good thing. Other people would have just started the import
> and produced much bigger disagreements.

Especially considering that in a lot of areas OSM already covers 90%
of the sites that wikipedia has georeferenced pages for, and more.

Note that you can quite easily automatically infer the POI type from
the article by looking at the infobox type and other templates the
page uses, I have somewhere a piece of python code to parse wikipedia
infoboxes, templates, inter-wiki links, if you want to use it, it was
used for matching existing objects against wikipedia pages.  (For
localities you can legally import them from GNS and then match against
wikipedia instead of importing from wikipedia).

Cheers