[talk-ph] bulk import of wikipedia POIs to OSM

Eugene Alvin Villar seav80 at gmail.com
Wed May 6 12:53:45 BST 2009


Wikipedia POIs are essentially geocoded articles. And basing on my
experience working with Philippine-related Wikipedia articles, practically
the only geocoded articles are the ones about large geographic features like
provinces, cities, municipalities, mountains, rivers, etc. I don't think
that there's anything that we can add to the Philippine part of OSM from
Wikipedia that's not already there.


On Wed, May 6, 2009 at 3:08 PM, maning sambale
<emmanuel.sambale at gmail.com>wrote:

> Over at the main OSM list, there is a discussion on importing POIs
> from wikipedia articles:
> http://lists.openstreetmap.org/pipermail/talk/2009-May/036582.html
>
> The main discussion revolves around whether we should or shouldn't
> import given that some of the POIs location (lon/lat) maybe derived
> from Google Map.  I'm not really familiar with wikipedia's POI data
> particularly for the Philippines.  Do we need to add them here?  Or
> there will be major conflicts with existing POIs we have already
> added.
>
> Any ideas?
>
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