[OSM-talk] POIs from wikipedia

[Richard Fairhurst]

Robin Paulson wrote:

> [co-ordinates on Wikipedia]
> On 08/01/2008, Richard Fairhurst <richard at systemed.net> wrote:
> > 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

Please read
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Obtaining_geographic_coordinates

It actively recommends getting co-ordinates from Google Maps,  
Multimap, Microsoft etc. etc. etc.

cheers
Richard