[OSM-talk] Building Equals Yes

Craig Wallace craigw84 at fastmail.fm
Tue May 17 14:09:00 BST 2011


On 17/05/2011 11:50, Pieren wrote:
> Nice site.
> But when I read the following at http://buildingequalsyes.spum.org/about/:
> "Where did all the Where On Earth IDs come from?
> Flickr!
> Shortly, I hope to import them all back in to OpenStreetMap so that each
> building (specifically, each way tagged building=yes) will have one or
> more woe:PLACETYPE=WOEID tags associated with it."
>
> I think it is a bad idea to import Flickr woeid back into OSM when you
> can retrieve the ID yourself with the Yahoo API at any time.

Yes, I agree. Also many of the WOEID placenames seem to be of dubious 
accuracy.
I've checked a few places near me, several of the "towns" are just a few 
houses, and in the wrong locations. It looks like they are originally 
from GNS or similar?



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