[OSM-talk] POIs from wikipedia

[Robin Paulson]

On 08/01/2008, Richard Fairhurst <richard at systemed.net> 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.

really, that sounds like it would contravene wikipedia's rules and
google's terms of use? and is it our responsibility to pre-guess what
wp editors are doing? i think taking their data at face value is
acceptable