Over at the main OSM list, there is a discussion on importing POIs
from wikipedia articles:
http://lists.openstreetmap.org/pipermail/talk/2009-May/036582.html
The main discussion revolves around whether we should or shouldn't
import given that some of the POIs location (lon/lat) maybe derived
I kinda sit on the fence on both the legal issues and the desirability of bulk
importing specifically Philippines data. For kicking off this discussion, I'd
therefore suggest that we do not do a bulk import but that we do individually
use the Wikipedia map location tool. I have found this very