[OSM-talk] Locations from wikipedia?

[80n]

At least whoever added this data was thoughtful enough to use the source
tag.

Referencing sources might be a bit tedious at times, but it really is good
practice.  Kudos to whoever did this.

80n

On 11/12/06, SteveC <steve at asklater.com> wrote:
>
> * @ 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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