[OSM-talk] Adding Wikidata tags to 70k items automatically

[Andy Mabbett]

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On 27 August 2014 18:46, SomeoneElse <lists at mail.atownsend.org.uk> wrote:

> Presumably there's some geographical matching criteria too (so each "Black
> Hill" in the "hills" list is matched to the correct one)?
>
> If so, is there a licence issue where wikidata has imported from wikipedia,
> and wikipedia has obtained position information from who-knows-where
> (probably a source not compatibly licensed with OSM)?  In at least one
> example(1) there's no wikipedia reference on the OSM node.

There is no license issue. No copyright-protected data is being added
to OSM. No cordinates from Wikidata are being added to OSM. No text
from Wikidata is being added to OSM.

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Andy Mabbett
@pigsonthewing
http://pigsonthewing.org.uk