[HOT] Mali

[Pierre Béland]

Reinier,

for your curiosity, Michael Heißmeier has used GNS datato convert to OSM and I wrongly stated Geonames.


 
Pierre 



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> De : Reinier Battenberg <reinier.battenberg at mountbatten.net>
>À : hot at openstreetmap.org 
>Envoyé le : Samedi 26 janvier 2013 3h49
>Objet : Re: [HOT] Mali
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>Hi,
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>Out of curiousity, the wiki clearly states geonames data is not to be imported into OSM. http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Geonames
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>Is that ban lifted? (in which case: cool, we have a lot of work to do, too)
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>Or should i read: get the lat+lon from the Bing imagery, and the name from Geonames, all manually? (as the geonames source of the lat+lon is google satelite imagery, but the name comes from XXX?)
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>rgds,
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>Reinier
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>On Friday 25 January 2013 13:16:17 Pierre Béland wrote:
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>Norman,
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>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 to his file.
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>Pierre 
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>Can we use the names of this map - i mean can somebody ask this
>http://reliefweb.int/sites/reliefweb.int/files/resources/Logcluster_MRT_005_A3L_20121122.pdf
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