[Imports] Natural Earth datasets

[Apollinaris Schoell]

For most areas this shouldn't be imported because it's redundant and much better data is available for imports and/or is already in osm.
In selected regions it can be useful.



On 26 Jan 2010, at 8:16 , Sam Vekemans wrote:

> At first glance it looks fine.
> Has anyone contacted directly? Maybe they want to help with the
> conversion process?
> 
> Sam
> 
> On 1/26/10, Jaak Laineste <jaak at nutiteq.com> wrote:
>> http://www.naturalearthdata.com/downloads/10m-physical-vectors/ has some
>> data which is not in OSM yet (like rivers), and their terms (Public Domain)
>> should be compatible with OSM.
>> 
>> 
>> 
>> I did not find it mentioned in
>> http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Potential_Datasources . Ok to import?
>> 
>> 
>> 
>> Jaak
>> 
>> 
> 
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