[OSM-legal-talk] Place name translations

Erik Johansson erjohan at gmail.com
Sun Jun 16 01:47:45 UTC 2013


While I agree with Richard, it might be interesting to know that
Wikidata (a Wikimedia.de project) is licensed CC-0, and they copy data
wholesale from Wikipedia.

So ATM if someone wants to do it you can just copy it to wikidata and
then osm.org.

On Fri, Jun 14, 2013 at 5:34 PM, SomeoneElse
<lists at mail.atownsend.org.uk> wrote:
> Someone's being adding translations of place names using:
>
> http://lt.wikipedia.org/wiki/S%C4%85ra%C5%A1as:Jungtin%C4%97s_Karalyst%C4%97s_miestai
>
> (which in turn references something else, according to the wikipedia page)
>
> Apparently "Place names translations are public knowledge and it can be used
> on OSM".
>
> Does this sound plausible?  I genuinely have no idea....
>
> Cheers,
> Andy
>
>
>
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