[talk-ph] bulk import of wikipedia POIs to OSM

2009-05-06 Thread maning sambale
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

Re: [talk-ph] bulk import of wikipedia POIs to OSM

2009-05-06 Thread Mike Collinson
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