[OSM-talk] Wikipedia POI import?

[Jonathan Bennett]

Jacek Konieczny wrote:
> You don't need multiple values. Other languages are linked in Wikipedia,
> no need to duplicate this in OSM.
> 
> If a place is described in 20 national Wikipedias do we really want 20
> wikipedia=XX:<name> tags in OSM when only single wikipedia=XX:<name>
> links to all the pages?

If you want to be able to render maps for a specific language or
territory, yes. Having the WP shortcut version means that if I wanted to
link to the English version of a WP page when we have only the Polish
version, I have to retrieve the Polish page from WP and parse it to find
the link to the English version. This means I can't do this rendering
offline, and would slow the job down somewhat.

> And more. You need no special handling for wikipedia=XX: links. 

Except you do -- special handling from an OSM point of view. The
convention of <tag>:<lang> = <value> is already well-established.

-- 
Jonathan (Jonobennett)