[OSM-legal-talk] Question using Wikipedia coordinates

Eugene Alvin Villar seav80 at gmail.com
Fri Oct 10 17:42:51 UTC 2014


Hi,

If you got the coordinates of objects on your own without looking at Google
Maps or other copyrighted sources, then you should be able to publish them
on Wikipedia and on OpenStreetMap in parallel. But do not indicate
Wikipedia as the source in OpenStreetMap. Please use source=survey or
source=local_knowledge


On Fri, Oct 10, 2014 at 9:28 PM, Thorsten Schneider <ts.de at gmx.de> wrote:

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> Dear all,
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> I had been notified, that it might not be possible to include coordinates
> published in Wikipedia and would like to seek a solution here.
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> Background: Together with 2 colleagues I have collected over a longer
> period of time a database of coordinates of  a certain type of museums
> worldwide. The coordinates did not come from Google maps, they had been
> determined on the OSM map by using address data from the museums webpages
> and partly own information or coming from people with local knowledge.
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> We have published this information, incl. the coordinates on Wikipedia.
> After that I uploaded the coordinates, together with the name of the
> museums, etc. to OSM, in the source tag I put my respective Wikipedia
> article.  A friendly mapper has contacted me and raised the question,
> whether there are licensing problems between OSM and WP-data.
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> I would like to learn more on how to contribute to Wikipedia and OSM in
> parallel, without legal hazel.
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> Thank you very much!
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> Best wishes
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> Thorsten
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