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

Johan C osmned at gmail.com
Tue Jun 21 16:39:20 UTC 2016


Is MAPS.ME involved in this discussion? Without them interacting with the
community it will be of no use to have  further discussion.

Cheers, Johan
Op 21 jun. 2016 16:05 schreef "Oleksiy Muzalyev" <
oleksiy.muzalyev at bluewin.ch>:

> 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
>
>
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