[OSM-talk] Wikipedia POI import?

[Apollinaris Schoell]

this will create many duplicates. You will need to do some checking  
before a poi is added. so many mass imports are done cleanup is a lot  
of work.
checking should be done against points, ways, polygons. in osm tags  
are somtimes on building polugon or on a point. If we have both the  
map is too cluttered with trahs
better import less but have better quality.





On 5 May 2009, at 11:00 , 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.
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