[OSM-talk] POIs from wikipedia

Richard Fairhurst richard at systemeD.net
Mon Jan 7 22:41:56 GMT 2008


Robin Paulson wrote:

> 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

These are almost certainly derived from Google Maps et al, therefore  
unsuitable for OSM.

cheers
Richard




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