Hi Andrzej, What is the EPA hazards import? I'm not aware of it. Would you please give a brief introduction or link?
I've written an automatic Wikipedia entry crawler, using name and coordinate to retrieve the appropriate entry (there often exists "coord" section in "infobox" or stand-alone in a Wikipedia entry content). I've described it in another thread: http://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected]/msg14211.html. Or you can check my Wiki page: http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/User:Zhijie_Shen. Please have a look at it. I only use simple way to retrieve the Wikipedia entries, but I believe there must be some more sophisticated information retrieval methods. Regards, Zhijie On Mon, Feb 28, 2011 at 10:41 AM, andrzej zaborowski <[email protected]>wrote: > On 25 February 2011 17:20, M∡rtin Koppenhoefer <[email protected]> > wrote: > > 2011/2/25 Zhijie Shen <[email protected]>: > >> On Fri, Feb 25, 2011 at 1:16 AM, M∡rtin Koppenhoefer > >> <[email protected]> wrote: > >>> 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]. > >> Yes, I agree the coordinates cannot be directly imported into OSM, > >> otherwise, some inconsistence issues may occur. > > > > > > Actually the problem is more of a legal nature. We can't import them, > > because their copyright is not compatible with our community > > guidelines. > > It is also technical, I suspect the way such an import would work out > would be similar to the EPA hazards import (or whatever). It would be > only discrete nodes and both the type of the POI and the name to give > it would be difficult to obtain automatically from a wikipedia page. > The precision of the coordinates in WP also depends a lot on the types > of objects. Some types of "infoboxes" could probably be treated > programatically but not much more. > > Cheers > -- Zhijie Shen School of Computing National University of Singapore <http://www.comp.nus.edu.sg/%7Ez-shen/>
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