I am not sure how I missed this discussion, but adding information
from OSM into Wikidata en mass like this is a violation of the OSM
license.

- Serge

On Tue, Mar 10, 2015 at 11:32 AM, Yaroslav M. Blanter <[email protected]> wrote:
> On 2015-03-10 14:31, Amir E. Aharoni wrote:
>>
>> Hi,
>>
>> [ Aude and Christian Consonni, this should especially interest you. ]
>>
>> I was throwing around ideas with a friend about how OpenStreetMap
>> could be integrated with Wikidata.
>>
> ...
>>
>> Towns obviously have or can a Wikipedia article about them, but
>> probably not every street or shop. But do they fulfill a structural
>> need or is it way too much?
>>
>
> Hi Amir,
>
> anything which can be remotely considered as a tourist attraction, as well
> as shops, hotels, reataurants and such are withing the scope of Wikivoyage
> and thus of Wikidata. For streets, we have now an approved bot task adding
> all Dutch streets on Wikidata, and I do not see why any other country could
> be different - provided we have good sources.
>
> Cheers
> Yaroslav
>
>
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