On 12/11/06, Michael Noda michael.noda@gmail.com wrote:
Absolutely. But how often are they checking for new data? Every database dump? How soon after one does the new data propogate?
They are doing batch updates from dumps. .. I can find out exactly what their update schedule looks like.
In the meantime, we should do some work making our georeferencing more consistent. They capture many of the ways which we geocode, but not all of them. As someone who has tried to do stuff with out geodata previously, I can sympathize with the challenges Google has faced in this project.
You can see my post on the subject at: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia_talk:WikiProject_Geographical_coordin...