On May 5, 2009, at 3:23 PM, Tobias Knerr wrote: > Russ Nelson schrieb: >> Any reason not to go through Wikipedia and import everything with a >> coordinate as a POI, with a url=http://wikipedia.org/NAME link, and >> name=NAME where NAME is the name of the Wikipedia entry? > > * There is already a free, constantly-updated, machine-readable and, > most importantly, authoritative source of "Wikipedia entry location" > information available: Wikipedia itself.
Argh. Okay, so here's the problem as I see it: 1) We encourage people to add features to OSM. Specifically I'm thinking of public art like the Charging Bull aka the Wall Street Bull. It's in OSM as tourism=artwork. 2) But it's also in Wikipedia. 3) We could not import it. But then, by dribs and by drabs, over time, people will re-create all of Wikipedia's (and in fact EVERY other bit of geodata) entries, because when they look at the editor, it's not there. There's two ways we could go: either import EVERYTHING into OSM. Or else make sure that everything which map renderers could use is also available to OSM editors. One way to do that is to have a second API which consists of a cached copy of everything that map renderers might use, all merged into one read-only OSM-compatible api. So when somebody asks to edit an area, the editor also shows them the read- only elements, so they know not to enter anything already available to map users. Especially Wikipedia, which is already editable in a different format. Maybe what we really need is a gateway to editing Wikipedia using OSM as a front-end? -- 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
