[Talk-gb-westmidlands] Mapping Wikipedia artciles

[Ian Caldwell]

There is a plugin for JOSM that does Wikipedia.

Just been using it around Malvern, There is quite a lot of work to do, plus
it shows a few errors in Wikipedia.

Ian Caldwell.


Ian


On 15 August 2014 21:47, Matthijs Melissen <info at matthijsmelissen.nl> wrote:

> On 15 August 2014 21:11, Andy Mabbett <andy at pigsonthewing.org.uk> wrote:
> > I would like to propose a project for our group: that we make the West
> > Midlands the first county with all of its geotagged Wikipedia
> > articles, and their equivalent Wikidata entries, added to OSM.
>
> I think that's a great idea. Having wikipedia articles linked is very
> useful, in particular on mobile when touring around. And I think
> wikidata has the potential to become very important in the future too.
>
> >    wikipedia en:St Paul's Church, Birmingham
>
> Do we add the equals sign after wikipedia, or do we use wikipedia:en?
>
> > You can see local, geotagged Wikipedia articles on this map:
> >
> >
> https://tools.wmflabs.org/wiwosm/osm-on-ol/kml-on-ol.php?la=en&uselang=en&lon=-1.865&lat=52.450&rang=50&map=1
>
> I don't understand that map very well. Is there a legend? Is there a
> way to see what has been done already? Especially the latter is very
> important.
>
> How do we tag things that only appear on a list, such as 'Grade I
> listed buildings in the West Midlands'?
>
> > What do you think? Any questions? Will you help?
>
> Like I said, I think it's a great idea. I added tags for a couple of
> buildings in the city centre already, and plan to help adding some
> more.
>
> -- Matthijs
>
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