[Imports] OSM with Wikidata: now covers UK and Ireland
Paul Norman
penorman at mac.com
Fri Mar 11 11:20:23 UTC 2016
On 2016-03-10 6:57 PM, Edward Betts wrote:
> I've extended my search for matches between OSM and Wikidata again. It now
> covers all of the UK and Ireland.
>
> I used map data from http://download.geofabrik.de/europe/british-isles.html
>
> The results are grouped by region or county as well as by category.
>
> http://edwardbetts.com/osm-wikidata/gb-ie/
>
> I'm going to figure out how to upload these matches to OSM. I've registered an
> account with the username Wikidata to use for the uploads.
Some or most Wikidata coordinates are sourced from Wikipedia, how are
you excluding these?
These in turn may have been sourced from Google Maps/Earth, which is an
accepted practice in Wikipedia, but not allowed in OSM. How are these
being excluded?
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