On 08/01/2008, Robin Paulson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > while i was looking up some info on wikipedia [1], i noticed that a > lot of pages have a lat/lon value to describe their location; this > strikes me as something we could use to increase the amount of data in > OSM > > it would require a mass download of data from all the pages that > contain these values, matching to relevant tags and importing into > OSM. > > dos anyone here have the experience to query the wikipedia db in a way > that could pull out just those pages with location info? > > [1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Southdown_Train_Station
bad i know, but replying to my own mail: http://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:WikiProjekt_Georeferenzierung/Wikipedia-World/en has a database of all georeferenced POIs in SQL format i realise a lot of these will be in OSM already, so there would need to be some cross-referencing/filtering to prevent duplication suggestions, comments? has this been done already? _______________________________________________ talk mailing list [email protected] http://lists.openstreetmap.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/talk
