Frederik Ramm wrote: >Sent: 19 March 2009 12:00 AM >To: Russ Nelson >Cc: Talk Openstreetmap >Subject: Re: [OSM-talk] Alternatives to wikipedia? > >Hi, > >Russ Nelson wrote: >> This is a serious enough issue that it should be escalated to the >> OSMF. > >OSMF telling "the Wikikpedia people" what to do would be like "the >Wikipedia people" telling us what to do. We'd laugh at them and go on. > >A Wikipedia link from OSM is just like any other web link - you have no >guarantee that its target will remain present (or online). Let's just >accept this and get on with things. By all means, put a link to >Encycoplaedia Britannica if you want but how sure are you that this >outlasts the Wikipedia article?
or we could just start our own factual database beyond geospatial data. Its clearly a whole lot easier and less contentious if you are only responsible for documenting fact, and it's a sure way of staying ahead of the game with this linked-data malarkey. Leave everything else for Hello magazine. Cheers Andy _______________________________________________ talk mailing list talk@openstreetmap.org http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk
