[OSM-talk] Wikipedia POI import?

[Paul Johnson]

Russ Nelson wrote:
> On May 6, 2009, at 2:02 PM, Dair Grant wrote:
> 
>> Russ Nelson wrote:
>>
>>> TeleAtlas data is copyrighted, and when licensed is licensed under an
>>> incompatible copyright.
>> The data you're proposing taking from Wikipedia is probably derived,  
>> via
>> Google, from that same TeleAtlas (or Navteq) data.
> 
> 
> Or OpenStreetMap data.  How would you know?  Perhaps TA and N have  
> easter eggs.

I actually did a paper on this last term (map easter eggs):  Both TA and
N are known to contain easter eggs (though I don't recall which of the
two denies this publicly).


> But y'all are STILL focussing on the WRONG PROBLEM.  Okay, here's what  
> we have for objections:
> 
>    o Wikipedia editors are instructed to use Google Maps thus their  
> geodata is potentially infringing.
>    o We should be gathering our data from the field (so that means  
> that the data we currently have is reliable enough, modulo any  
> currently-known copyright problems).
>    o But some of the Wikipedia POIs are already in OSM.
> 
> Can you see how this points a way forward?  We look at the Wikipedia  
> lat/lons and POI names.  We look in OSM for nearby POIs.  We *replace*  
> the Wikipedia lat/lons with OSM lat/lons.  In fact, we turn this into  
> a continuous process.  When somebody enters a POI, we look in  
> Wikipedia for that entity, and we link to the Wikipedia page and  
> replace its lat/lon with our own.

I guess I missed something...how is this not the obvious answer?  I took
it for granted that this was happening already.

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