On May 5, 2009, at 3:11 PM, Richard Fairhurst wrote: > > Adam Schreiber wrote: >> We don't know where the wikipedia users sourced their cooridinates >> from. > > Oh yes we do: Google Maps. > > http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Obtaining_geographic_coordinates#Google_tools > > There is absolutely no way that Wikipedia-derived co-ordinates are > suitable > for mass import into OSM.
In fact, we don't know this. And since Google didn't create those lat/ lon pairs, the Wikipedia editor did, Google had no participation in the act of creation, and thus no copyright claim. You guys have some really weird ideas about copyright. -- Russ Nelson - http://community.cloudmade.com/blog - http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/User:RussNelson [email protected] - Twitter: Russ_OSM - http://openstreetmap.org/user/RussNelson _______________________________________________ talk mailing list [email protected] http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk
