[OSM-talk] WMF: "Interactive maps, now in your language"

Mateusz Konieczny matkoniecz at tutanota.com
Fri Jun 29 17:21:54 UTC 2018


29. Jun 2018 13:18 by andy at pigsonthewing.org.uk <mailto:andy at pigsonthewing.org.uk>:


> On 29 June 2018 at 11:38, Max <> abonnements at revolwear.com <mailto:abonnements at revolwear.com>> > wrote:
>
>> "Add the missing names to OSM in your language."
>>
>> That is inflating the OSM database with something that Wikidata has solved
>> already in a much better way. Why would someone from wikimedia recommend to
>> create a less mentainable version of their database?
>
> Because the OSM community refuses to allow the import of data from Wikidata.



Because WIkidata data is license-incompatible with OSM.
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