[OSM-talk] Wikipedia POI import?

[Tobias Knerr]

Russ Nelson schrieb:
> 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?

* There is already a free, constantly-updated, machine-readable and,
most importantly, authoritative source of "Wikipedia entry location"
information available: Wikipedia itself.

* Tons of tags for more widely known features (there isn't just
en.wikipedia...). Need frequent updates.

* Wikipedia does contain events, historical features etc. that aren't
usually entered into OSM.

* Sources for Wikipedia's coordinates unknown, but it's probable that
most of them are from Google.

* If subject to copyright: Incompatible licenses.
  - GFDL vs. CC-BY-SA 2.0 (now)
  - CC-BY-SA 3.0 vs. CC-BY-SA 2.0 (hopefully soon)
  - CC-BY-SA 3.0 vs. ODBL (maybe later)

Just some brainstorming.

Tobias Knerr