On 25 February 2011 17:20, M∡rtin Koppenhoefer <[email protected]> wrote: > 2011/2/25 Zhijie Shen <[email protected]>: >> On Fri, Feb 25, 2011 at 1:16 AM, M∡rtin Koppenhoefer >> <[email protected]> wrote: >>> display them as an overlay. We cannot (AFAIK) import those coordinates >>> into OSM because we believe that they were mainly created from >>> Googlemaps hence constitute a derived database [1]. >> Yes, I agree the coordinates cannot be directly imported into OSM, >> otherwise, some inconsistence issues may occur. > > > Actually the problem is more of a legal nature. We can't import them, > because their copyright is not compatible with our community > guidelines.
It is also technical, I suspect the way such an import would work out would be similar to the EPA hazards import (or whatever). It would be only discrete nodes and both the type of the POI and the name to give it would be difficult to obtain automatically from a wikipedia page. The precision of the coordinates in WP also depends a lot on the types of objects. Some types of "infoboxes" could probably be treated programatically but not much more. Cheers _______________________________________________ dev mailing list [email protected] http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/dev
