[Imports] OSM with Wikidata: 27,232 matches found in England

Philip Barnes phil at trigpoint.me.uk
Thu Mar 17 09:19:15 UTC 2016


On Wed Mar 16 18:03:04 2016 GMT, Andy Townsend wrote:
> On 24/01/2016 11:46, Edward Betts wrote:
> > I've extended my search for matches between OSM and Wikidata. It now covers
> > all of England instead of just the West Midlands.
> >
> 
> Given that you seem to be going ahead with this import, notwithstanding 
> the (relatively few) matching issues highlighted in this thread and 
> potential other issues (e.g. licence problems) raised elsewhere, are you 
> going to warn mappers in an area when their area is likely to be 
> affected by this import, so that they can do the necessary data checking 
> work?
> 
> You've had a "please import" message from the West Midlands in the 
> talk-gb thread, of course, but some of the data imported so far isn't in 
> that area:
In these terms I would consider the West Midlands to be the urban sprawl of Birmingham,  certainly not Telford and Wrekin or Shropshire. 

Phil (trigpoint)
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