[OSM-talk] POIs from wikipedia

[Robin Paulson]

while i was looking up some info on wikipedia [1], i noticed that a
lot of pages have a lat/lon value to describe their location; this
strikes me as something we could use to increase the amount of data in
OSM

it would require a mass download of data from all the pages that
contain these values, matching to relevant tags and importing into
OSM.

dos anyone here have the experience to query the wikipedia db in a way
that could pull out just those pages with location info?

[1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Southdown_Train_Station