[OSM-talk] MAPS.ME edits - partly sub-standard

[Oleksiy Muzalyev]

On 21.06.2016 15:36, Oleksiy Muzalyev wrote:
>
> I wrote a program http://ausleuchtung.ch/geo_wiki/ which allows to 
> find location of all Wikipedia articles either by coordinates in the 
> articles themselves, or by the OpenStreetMap tags (wikipedia, 
> wikimedia_commons, wikidata) in the radius of ten kilometers around a 
> click.
>
> It works for all language versions of Wikipedia, just change Wikipedia 
> language field from en to fr, de, it, ru, etc. A search by an OSM tag 
> may take 2 - 3 seconds.
>
> So it is possible to check Wikipedia articles locations and OSM tags 
> in an area visually. I noticed and corrected quite of few Wikipedia 
> articles with wrong geographical coordinates with this tool. Probably 
> people, who posses encyclopedic knowledge and create articles, are not 
> always too good in cartography.
>
> Best regards,
>
> Oleksiy
>
For example, - the article Chapelle Notre-Dame-des-Voirons de Boëge 
https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chapelle_Notre-Dame-des-Voirons_de_Bo%C3%ABge

You can see in the History of this Wikipedia article the correction of 
geographical coordinates on January 1, 2016. This chapel is situated on 
a mountain, but before the correction the coordinates had been pointing 
on the top of another mountain, about 15 kilometers away.
brgds
Oleksiy