[OSM-talk] Wikipedia POI import?

[Russ Nelson]

On May 5, 2009, at 3:11 PM, Richard Fairhurst wrote:

>
> 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.


In fact, we don't know this.  And since Google didn't create those lat/ 
lon pairs, the Wikipedia editor did, Google had no participation in  
the act of creation, and thus no copyright claim.

You guys have some really weird ideas about copyright.

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