[OSM-talk] Wikipedia POI import?

[Richard Fairhurst]

Adam Schreiber wrote:
> We don't know where the wikipedia users sourced their cooridinates from.

Oh yes we do: Google Maps.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Obtaining_geographic_coordinates#Google_tools

There is absolutely no way that Wikipedia-derived co-ordinates are suitable
for mass import into OSM.

cheers
Richard
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