[OSM-dev] Linking wikipedia and osm

[Martin Koppenhoefer]

2013/9/6 amrit karmacharya <amrit.im at gmail.com>

> Thank you Eugene.
>
>  the 1st article <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nyatapola>  also didn't
> have the {{Coord}} template but it showed up. why is such difference?
>



actually the {{Coord}} template in WP is a different (parallel) approach,
it links an WP article to a certain (point) coordinate, while using the
wikipedia tag in osm links an OSM object to a wikipedia article. This is
not the same, and for features with a bigger extension (think of countries,
rivers, lakes, ...) it is far more useful to have the object linked instead
of a point coordinate.

cheers,
Martin
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