Russ Nelson wrote: > 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? If I do this > under a special username, then there is no problem backing out the > import if somebody has a better idea later. > Plenty of reason. To give just one example I came up with after no thought at all:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Watts_Gallery is already in OSM as http://www.openstreetmap.org/browse/node/30361827 so you'd be duplicating a POI -- OSM's location for this point is also more accurate than WP's (although I may now edit the WP coords). I could probably come up with a few dozen more examples just in my local mapping area, where the same problems would occur. Scale this up to a worldwide level and you'd just be creating thousands and thousands of duplicate points. Jono _______________________________________________ talk mailing list [email protected] http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk
