[OSM-talk] Wikipedia POI import?

Thomas Wood grand.edgemaster at gmail.com
Tue May 5 19:08:19 BST 2009


Unverified and somewhat copyrightable sources.

Where's ShakespeareFan00 when you need him? :)

2009/5/5 Russ Nelson <russ at cloudmade.com>:
> 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?  If I do this
> under a special username, then there is no problem backing out the
> import if somebody has a better idea later.
>
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Thomas Wood
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