<p dir="ltr">From what I've seen I would recommend to crosscheck with enough radius for every single entry of geonames with existing place= with name (the are some areas where a lot of placenames are present already) in order not to duplicate place/names and preventing deleting work of previous contributors when cleaning up. And please crosscheck with Bing. A lot of geonames are obviously 300-600m off, but there are not too few that are 1200-1800m off, some even 3km off. Thanks. </p>
<div class="gmail_quote">Am 25.01.2013 15:07 schrieb "Norman Rathmann" <<a href="mailto:info@laxmi-reisen.de">info@laxmi-reisen.de</a>>:<br type="attribution"><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">
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Hi Pierre<br>
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i have enough experience in OSM mapping with JOSM (3,5 years)<br>
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<div style="font-style:normal;font-size:13.3333px;background-color:transparent;font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif"><span>This work has to be
done with somebody having enough experience with OSM to deal
with these imports. If you feel that you are familiar enough
with OSM to do this import, I will send you a link to the
Import file for Mali.<br>
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Re: [HOT] Mali<br>
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<div> Yes, this would fine<br>
Hope i can manage this<br>
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25.01.2013 14:16, schrieb Pierre Béland:<br>
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<div style="font-style:normal;font-size:13.3333px;background-color:transparent;font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif"><span>The data provides
for various sources with no clear license.
To import names, we can use data from
Geonames. Michael have converted this data
to osm format for Mali. To import this data,
one should import manually comparing with
populated places on Bing imagery and correct
the geolocation. If you are intererested to
import the data, Michael can give you access
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[HOT] Mali<br>
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Can we use the names of this map - i
mean can somebody ask this<br>
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