[WikiEN-l] User:FritzpollBot creating millions of new

Steve Summit scs at eskimo.com
Sun Jun 1 21:34:55 UTC 2008


Delirium wrote:
> This particular proposal also seems to be heavily relying on a few 
> global placename databases that: 1) have very minimal data (often just 
> coordinates); and 2) have lots of errors, or at best ambiguity. Someone 
> already found a village in Nigeria that likely doesn't even exist.

This point was brought up on one of the discussion pages.
I believe the plan is to use the intersection of two or three
nominally-independent databases.



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