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Alex Barth  
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 More options Aug 23 2012, 1:20 am
From: Alex Barth <a...@mapbox.com>
Date: Thu, 23 Aug 2012 01:20:54 -0400
Local: Thurs, Aug 23 2012 1:20 am
Subject: Re: [OSM-talk] OSM-based community-maintained yelp-like project?
Fantastic, wasn't aware of the migration plans in Wikitravel!

Any specific plans on further integration with OSM?

On Aug 22, 2012, at 9:56 PM, Ian Sergeant <inas66+...@gmail.com> wrote:

> The Wikitravel community is (hopefully) in the process of migrating to
> the WMF servers, which will hopefully give us more technical
> capability in this area.  It is frustrating to enter the coords, with
> no site capability to display them.

> Closer integration with OSM is certainly sought into the future, and
> already is the basis for most maps on the site.  The POIs are entered
> into OSM first.

> See http://www.wikivoyage.org/general/Migration_FAQ for more details,
> and while you are there, perhaps leave your comments on the RFC at
> meta.

> Ian.

> On 23 August 2012 10:20, Alex Barth <a...@mapbox.com> wrote:

>> On Aug 22, 2012, at 5:15 PM, Matej Cepl <mc...@redhat.com> wrote:
>>> Is there some project like Yelp/Google Reviews community-based and based on OSM, or at least plans to do something like that?

>> wikitravel.org comes to mind, they're far from tracking POIs as such, but they talk about them all the time:

>> http://wikitravel.org/en/Washington_dc#Eat

>>> _______________________________________________
>>> talk mailing list
>>> t...@openstreetmap.org
>>> http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk

>> Alex Barth
>> http://twitter.com/lxbarth
>> tel (+1) 202 250 3633

>> _______________________________________________
>> talk mailing list
>> t...@openstreetmap.org
>> http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk

Alex Barth
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