[OSM-talk] bulk loading towns/cities locations

[Andy Allan]

On 11/4/07, Peter Miller <peter.miller at itoworld.com> wrote:

> What about a bulk upload for the UK? It looks as though Wikipedia was
> initially loaded with UK places from some suitable source.

Wikipedians are (mildly) notorious for not worrying about deriving
geolocation data from copyrighted sources (e.g. tube stations from
google), and we've stayed clear of it in the past due to the
uncertainty. Much better to stick to other datasources, especially all
the public-domain stuff from the US.

Cheers,
Andy