[OSM-talk] POIs from wikipedia

[Robin Paulson]

On 10/01/2008, Richard Fairhurst <richard at systemed.net> wrote:
> > [co-ordinates on Wikipedia]
> > 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.

it does, cheers

i'm slightly lost now, wondering how osm fits in to this. if wp users
can do it (i assume their legat team has looked through it?), why not
osm

i guess it's ok, because they're using it for illustrative purposes
(fair use?), rather than as a basis for their content

ok, i'll keep looking and keep thinking. thanks