[Talk-GB] [Imports] OSM with Wikidata: now covers UK and Ireland

Edward Betts edward at 4angle.com
Fri Mar 11 20:23:05 UTC 2016


Thanks SK53, you're right. I meant the West Midlands.

SK53 <sk53.osm at gmail.com> wrote:
> I presume you mean the West Midlands: firstly Birmingham is there &
> secondly, I suspect East Midland mappers are less enthusiastic about this
> sort of thing.
> 
> Jerry
> 
> On 11 March 2016 at 19:15, Edward Betts <edward at 4angle.com> wrote:
> 
> > Chris Hill <osm at raggedred.net> wrote:
> > > On 11/03/16 18:03, Edward Betts wrote:
> > > >I've uploaded my first changeset - Places of worship in Birmingham.
> > > >
> > > >https://www.openstreetmap.org/changeset/37766888
> > > >
> > > >This is a modification to 10 ways and one relation.
> > > >
> > > >The relation is a multipolygon representing Birmingham Oratory. The
> > uploader
> > > >has put the wikidata tag on the relation, which looks wrong. The other
> > tags for
> > > >the church are on the outer way. I will fix this before I do any more
> > uploads.
> > > >
> > >
> > > Since more than one person has asked you to check with local mappers
> > before
> > > making these uploads and there is an unanswered question about the
> > licence,
> > > I would ask you to stop uploading any more of these data until these
> > > questions have been addressed to the satisfaction of the mappers in GB.
> >
> > I was specially approached by mappers from the East Midlands and asked to
> > upload this data. Sorry for not making this clear.
> >
> > There is no problem with the license. I'm not deriving anything from
> > Wikipedia
> > or Wikidata. I'm just adding a link to Wikidata. There are already lots of
> > links to both Wikipedia and Wikidata in OSM.
> > --
> > Edward.



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