[OSM-dev] Wikipedia Place checker

Svavar Kjarrval svavar at kjarrval.is
Sat Apr 13 16:54:10 UTC 2013


Good work. One can also use the wikipedia plugin for JOSM to do
something similar.

With regards,
Svavar Kjarrval

On 13/04/13 15:14, Craig Loftus wrote:
> I have knocked up a simple script that gets all the pages in a
> Wikipedia category and checks them against place names from a given
> region using Overpass.
>
> Passing in a category like Hamlets_in_Oxfordshire and Oxfordshire as
> the region, I can then get a list of missing hamlets in Oxfordshire.
>
> https://github.com/craigloftus/wikipedia-osm-check
>
> Would appreciate people giving it a shake. And if there is interest I
> would consider making it available as a web 'service'.
>
> Regards,
> Craig
>
>
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