[OSM-talk-be] Map of local shops & amenities based on OSM data

[André Pirard]

On 2014-10-17 12:11, Sander Deryckere wrote :
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> 2014-10-17 1:14 GMT+02:00 André Pirard <A.Pirard.Papou at gmail.com
> <mailto:A.Pirard.Papou at gmail.com>>:
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>     BTW, Osmand mentions /*Worldwide Wikipedia POIs*/ files to
>     download and there is none for Belgium. Why is this? 
>     Wikipedia's Point of interest
>     <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Point_of_interest> itself does not
>     seem to know these files.
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>     André.
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> OsmAnd's wikipedia files are always worldwide, and per language (like
> wikipedia itself), not per country. As Belgian is not a language,
> you'd have to look for Dutch or French, and see the Belgian POI
> included (of course, there will be more POI in Dutch in the Flemish
> region than POI in French in the Flemish region). 
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So, it was a gotme. I filed an Osmand request to name it /*Per Language
Wikipedia POIs*/. Worldwide is implicit.

Thanks.

André.



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