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

[jamesmikedupont at googlemail.com]

On Sat, Jul 18, 2009 at 2:53 PM, andrzej zaborowski<balrogg at gmail.com> wrote:
> 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,
yes, that is the next logical conclusion.

> 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.
good idea.

>(For
> localities you can legally import them from GNS and then match against
> wikipedia instead of importing from wikipedia).

GNS? google: https://www1.nga.mil/ProductsServices/GeographicNames/Pages/default.aspx/html/
ahh, aspx... Has anyone prepard this into OSM? Can we create another
layer for that?

Good point, we can use these other layers as checks to see if there
are things missing.

I would like to be able to at least find the towns that are not in osm
and put them on a list of places to add.
The same with the historical monuments. We have one gps that i
sponsored and are getting another from drlizau, so we can send someone
to go there if we know they are missing.
That should be  fair use of the wikipedia.

thanks,
mike