[OSM-talk] Wikipedia POI import?

[Adam Schreiber]

On Tue, May 5, 2009 at 2:00 PM, Russ Nelson <russ at cloudmade.com> wrote:
> Any reason not to go through Wikipedia and import everything with a
> coordinate as a POI, with a url=http://wikipedia.org/NAME link, and
> name=NAME where NAME is the name of the Wikipedia entry?

We don't know where the wikipedia users sourced their cooridinates from.

While a single point sourced from Google Earth would probably be ok,
an entire collection possibly sourced from there would be
reconstituting their database right?

Cheers,

Adam