Hi Andy, I like the idea, and it'd be great if some dabbling happened in advance of wikimania. I'm not promising to get involved (sorry) since not sure I'll have time.
But I have no idea how to do a structured search in wikipedia (i.e. search for items within a category, which have co-ordinates). If you know any way, or tutorials etc, then sharing those might help OSMers to think about it? I've added some quick findings about this, to the discussion: https://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/User:Pigsonthewing/Wikipedia#How_to_query_Wikipedia Dan 2014-06-08 14:44 GMT+01:00 Andy Mabbett <[email protected]>: > A year or so ago, I raised a proposal for a bot to add links from OSM > entities, to the equivalent entities in Wikidata. Details are at: > > https://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/User:Pigsonthewing/Wikipedia > > While there was some interest, things haven't moved very far (I'm not > a coder, so am reliant on others). > > To make a more manageable project, we could perhaps run the job just > for the UK (or even a subset of that); and perhaps for a subject of > topics (starting with churches, say, or bridges, or railway stations, > or whatever). Once success is demonstrated, it could then be > replicated for more topics; and in other territories. > > Can anyone assist? How can we increase community buy-in? > > -- > Andy Mabbett > @pigsonthewing > http://pigsonthewing.org.uk > > _______________________________________________ > Talk-GB mailing list > [email protected] > https://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk-gb _______________________________________________ Talk-GB mailing list [email protected] https://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk-gb
