[OSM-talk] Wikipedia POI import?
Jonathan Bennett
openstreetmap at jonno.cix.co.uk
Wed May 6 00:14:56 BST 2009
Russ Nelson 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? If I do this
> under a special username, then there is no problem backing out the
> import if somebody has a better idea later.
>
Plenty of reason. To give just one example I came up with after no
thought at all:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Watts_Gallery is already in OSM as
http://www.openstreetmap.org/browse/node/30361827 so you'd be
duplicating a POI -- OSM's location for this point is also more accurate
than WP's (although I may now edit the WP coords).
I could probably come up with a few dozen more examples just in my local
mapping area, where the same problems would occur. Scale this up to a
worldwide level and you'd just be creating thousands and thousands of
duplicate points.
Jono
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