[OSM-talk] Please test this "Native wikipedia link" - feature

Tirkon tirkon33 at yahoo.de
Fri Jun 28 17:20:37 UTC 2013


Michael Kugelmann <MichaelK_OSM at gmx.de> wrote:

>> But as soon as you want to use the
>> interlanguage links as a database - just like OSM - then it is
>> suboptimal.
>For my point of view that's not a problem of OSM. It's the same as "we 
>don't map for the renderer". So this needs to be solved by another tool 
>or in Wikipedi/Wikidata/[whatever] and not in OSM. We should not merge a 
>second datebase inside OSM w/o a clear GIS relating.

I fully agree. For the record: I never said that it is a problem of
OSM neither to merge another database. I only answered the questions
of Martin respectively yours concerning my care about WIWOSM.

>And if (as also discussed in this thread) there are problems with one 
>special Internet Browser (who I consider not behaving very close to 
>standards) then that's the problem of this browser.

I think I have to ask Steve Coast who is the intermediary person to
Microsoft.




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