Re: [OSM-talk] osm maps on wikipedia - discussion

Howdy, I work at the Wikimedia Foundation as a Community Liaison for the Discovery department . Along with Yuri Astrakhan and Max Semenik, I've been helping to work with Wikipedians interested i

Re: [OSM-talk] osm maps on wikipedia - discussion

sent from a phone > Il giorno 30 apr 2016, alle ore 21:45, Frederik Ramm ha > scritto: > > The fact that there is an association in Italy promoting both Wikipedia > and OSM does not make the statement "We are 100% independent" false. I believe 99% would be more correct, as there is some int

Re: [OSM-talk] osm maps on wikipedia - discussion

Hi, On 04/30/2016 10:41 AM, Martin Koppenhoefer wrote: > Simone, I just wanted to point out that as of 27.1.2016, when you and > Martijn van Exel signed the official agreement, Wikimedia Italy is the > official local chapter of OSMF for Italy. OSMF Italy is a subgroup of > wikimedia Italy. No FUD

Re: [OSM-talk] osm maps on wikipedia - discussion

On Apr 30, 2016 10:49, "Martin Koppenhoefer" wrote: > > > > sent from a phone > > Il giorno 29 apr 2016, alle ore 17:42, Simone Cortesi ha scritto: > >> Martin, please NO FUD, you know that Wikimedia Italia is not just wmf Italian counterpart but we do other stuff related to open knowledge and op

Re: [OSM-talk] osm maps on wikipedia - discussion

sent from a phone > Il giorno 29 apr 2016, alle ore 17:42, Simone Cortesi ha > scritto: > > Martin, please NO FUD, you know that Wikimedia Italia is not just wmf Italian > counterpart but we do other stuff related to open knowledge and open access > and libraries. > > Our main source of in

Re: [OSM-talk] osm maps on wikipedia - discussion

On Apr 29, 2016 3:59 PM, "Martin Koppenhoefer" wrote: > > > > sent from a phone > > > Il giorno 29 apr 2016, alle ore 14:46, Richard Fairhurst < rich...@systemed.net> ha scritto: > > > > I've just created a quick, friendly wiki page to explain that and other > > differences: > > > > http://wiki.op

Re: [OSM-talk] osm maps on wikipedia - discussion

I agree a very nice introduction and it shows the differences. Thanks John On 29 April 2016 at 10:25, Clifford Snow wrote: > > On Fri, Apr 29, 2016 at 5:46 AM, Richard Fairhurst > wrote: > >> I've just created a quick, friendly wiki page to explain that and other >> differences: >> >> http://w

Re: [OSM-talk] osm maps on wikipedia - discussion

On Fri, Apr 29, 2016 at 5:46 AM, Richard Fairhurst wrote: > I've just created a quick, friendly wiki page to explain that and other > differences: > > http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Welcome_to_Wikipedia_users > Richard, Nice job on the Welcome page. Thanks -- @osm_seattle osm_seattle.snow

Re: [OSM-talk] osm maps on wikipedia - discussion

sent from a phone > Il giorno 29 apr 2016, alle ore 14:46, Richard Fairhurst > ha scritto: > > I've just created a quick, friendly wiki page to explain that and other > differences: > > http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Welcome_to_Wikipedia_users great page \o/ As a minor remark: "OpenSt

Re: [OSM-talk] osm maps on wikipedia - discussion

Clifford, I have really no idea, I've been recently referred to that page, but I've not been involved with it at all. On Thu, Apr 28, 2016 at 10:38 PM, Clifford Snow wrote: > Simone, > I'm not a Wikimedia user but maybe you could clarify a question for me. > Under the con's is the statement "in

Re: [OSM-talk] osm maps on wikipedia - discussion

On 29 Apr 2016, at 14:46, Richard Fairhurst wrote: > > Frederik Ramm wrote: >> We'd have to explain to Wikipedia users that what they see on our >> maps might not be what they expect, and that we do *not* want >> them to fix it... > > I've just created a quick, friendly wiki page to explain th

Re: [OSM-talk] osm maps on wikipedia - discussion

Frederik Ramm wrote: > We'd have to explain to Wikipedia users that what they see on our > maps might not be what they expect, and that we do *not* want > them to fix it... I've just created a quick, friendly wiki page to explain that and other differences: http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/We

Re: [OSM-talk] osm maps on wikipedia - discussion

sent from a phone > Il giorno 29 apr 2016, alle ore 00:53, Frederik Ramm ha > scritto: > > but whether or not the UN have approved > something is not what governs our mapping. +1, as we see in politics, true global players give a ship what the UN says ;-) cheers, Martin __

Re: [OSM-talk] osm maps on wikipedia - discussion

Hi, On 04/28/2016 11:22 PM, Yves wrote: > Concerning borders, Wikipedia could have a different way of dealing with > disputed territories, and OSM way of handling things may or may not be > appropriate. True. A potential "con" for OSM could be that Wikipedia has different standards of how to esta

Re: [OSM-talk] osm maps on wikipedia - discussion

Concerning borders, Wikipedia could have a different way of dealing with disputed territories, and OSM way of handling things may or may not be appropriate. Yves Le 28 avril 2016 22:38:37 GMT+02:00, Clifford Snow a écrit : >Simone, >I'm not a Wikimedia user but maybe you could clarify a

Re: [OSM-talk] osm maps on wikipedia - discussion

Simone, I'm not a Wikimedia user but maybe you could clarify a question for me. Under the con's is the statement "in many cases OpenStreetMap's territorial borders are bad or outdated" Where does this opinion come from? Please understand that I'm not necessarily disagreeing, but it seems to be a br

[OSM-talk] osm maps on wikipedia - discussion

Hello, currently being discussed on mediawiki is the future of maps soon to be added to wikipedia. page: https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Maps/Conversation_about_interactive_map_use talk page: https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Talk:Maps/Conversation_about_interactive_map_use I would ask you to have