On 12/11/06, Michael Noda <michael.noda(a)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_coordi…