First thing I thought of when I read this is how we could really benefit from UUIDs [1]. If we had those, and tagged OSM elements, Wikipedia articles, and Flickr/Picasa/etc images, and who knows what else, life would be so much better. :)
There's some good discussion on this page [1]. But yes, more Wikipedia links, one way or another! -Josh [1]: http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Proposed_Features/UUID On Thu, Feb 24, 2011 at 12:16 PM, M∡rtin Koppenhoefer <dieterdre...@gmail.com> wrote: > 2011/2/24 Zhijie Shen <zjshe...@gmail.com>: >> I'm student who is currently working on using OpenStreetMap to facilitate >> our project. Now I want to retrieve Wikipedia entry from OpenStreetMap to >> fertilize the data source for our project. To do this, I crawled OSM data, >> and found there are few wikipedia tags in my test region... I guess that the >> wikipedia entry on >> OpenStreetMap is added manually. Am I correct? > > > Yes, they are added manually. If you wanted to put them on the map > without reference to an OSM-Object you could simply take the > coordinates that wikipedia gives you for geotagged articles and > display them as an overlay. We cannot (AFAIK) import those coordinates > into OSM because we believe that they were mainly created from > Googlemaps hence constitute a derived database [1]. > > Today I was looking at some places (countries, states and cities) and > found that despite some wikipedia links most of them are actually > missing. > > I invite everybody to look in his region for features (not only > place-features) to see, if they are already linked to wikipedia. In > case they are not I suggest to add a tag in the form: > wikipedia=<language-code>:<article-name> > as suggested here: > http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Key:wikipedia > > e.g. > wikipedia=en:London > or > wikipedia=it:Hong_Kong > > (copy the value from the URL to avoid typos). > > It is generally sufficient to add 1 wikipedia-tag for one language, as > all the others can be fetched from the interlanguage links Wikipedia > is offering. Only in rare cases there might be need for additional > tags for different languages (in cases where the wikipedia structure > for different languages is differing, e.g. some languages have a > specific article, in other languages the same feature is described > inside the article of another thing). > > cheers, > Martin > > PS: This would also make a beautiful project of the month... > > [1] > http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Wikipedia#Importing_geodata_from_Wikipedia > > _______________________________________________ > talk mailing list > t...@openstreetmap.org > http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk > _______________________________________________ Tagging mailing list Tagging@openstreetmap.org http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/tagging
