[OSM-talk] Locations from wikipedia?

SteveC steve at asklater.com
Sun Nov 12 23:34:07 GMT 2006


* @ 12/11/06 11:10:21 PM streetmap at blibbleblobble.co.uk wrote:
> According to latest planet.osm, we have about 15 city locations copied from 
> wikipedia, e.g. node 16173939: 
> "source=http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ahmedabad"
> 
> http://almien.co.uk/OSM/Tools/Query/?Node=16173939

Times out :-(

> Is this compatible with the OSM license?

Almost certainly not, please remove it if you can;t prove it has a good
source. Wikipedia has all sorts of copyrighted geodata in it, they don't
seem to care.

A case in point is their 'copyright free' london underground maps, which
were derived from google maps.

have fun,

SteveC steve at asklater.com http://www.asklater.com/steve/




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