[Talk-in] Adding missing towns and villages to OSM

Arun Ganesh arun.planemad at gmail.com
Thu Nov 26 11:12:01 UTC 2015


Also of interest maybe the geocoded articles points from Wikipedia. Its not
ok for a direct import either, but can help as a reference layer. Does not
seem like anyone has made a background layer of that data yet.

On Thu, Nov 26, 2015 at 4:04 PM, Jothirnadh Sai <jothirnadh at gmail.com>
wrote:

> Ishan,
> As Justin said there is no licensing requirements for the GNS data, but
> there are a lot of errors in the data as the GNS data is too outdated. We
> can't directly import the whole data, but can do it with the reference of
> local mappers. It would be really good if the local mappers would
> contribute in their surrounding regions with the GNS layer reference.
>
> With Regards,
> JOTHIRNADH
> Open Data Analyst
> Mapbox, India
> Phn No.: +919490712829
>
> On Thu, Nov 26, 2015 at 12:50 AM, Justin Meyers <
> justinelliotmeyers at gmail.com> wrote:
>
>> Ishan,
>> The license for the nga data is here:
>> https://www.nga.mil/ProductsServices/GeographicNames/Pages/default.aspx
>>
>> "There are no licensing requirements or restrictions in place for the
>> use of the GNS data. However, we recommend using the following citation to
>> identify the GNS as a source:
>>
>> Toponymic information is based on the Geographic Names Data Base,
>> containing official standard names approved by the United States Board on
>> Geographic Names and maintained by the National Geospatial-Intelligence
>> Agency. The National Geospatial-Intelligence Agency name, initials, and
>> seal are protected by 10 United States Code Section 425."
>>
>>
>> geonames.org <http://s.bl-1.com/h/t1mf8j0?url=http://geonames.org/> has
>> many sources (which the nga data was the original dataset):
>> http://www.geonames.org/data-sources.html
>> <http://s.bl-1.com/h/t1mfD52?url=http://www.geonames.org/data-sources.html>
>>
>> On Wed, Nov 25, 2015 at 2:05 PM, Ishan Chattopadhyaya <
>> ichattopadhyaya at gmail.com> wrote:
>>
>>> Hi Jothirnadh,
>>> Can you please point us to the license info of the nga.mil server you
>>> mentioned in the blog? In case it is not of appropriate license, we cannot
>>> import into OSM. I believe geonames.org data is not of suitable license
>>> (others can correct me if I'm wrong). Is the data at the nga.mil map
>>> layer based on geonames.org?
>>> Regards,
>>> Ishan
>>>
>>> On Wed, Nov 25, 2015 at 4:50 PM, Aneesh T <doc.aneesh at gmail.com> wrote:
>>>
>>>> Not by a long shot... It's extremely time consuming
>>>> On 25 Nov 2015 2:21 p.m., "Arun Ganesh" <arun.planemad at gmail.com>
>>>> wrote:
>>>>
>>>>> Aneesh, are the towns and villages in Karnataka 100% complete?
>>>>>
>>>>> On Wed, Nov 25, 2015 at 1:18 PM, Aneesh T <doc.aneesh at gmail.com>
>>>>> wrote:
>>>>>
>>>>>> If you're interested in Karnataka.. The kpwd website has village
>>>>>> names which can be mapped out... As has been done by several contributors..
>>>>>> On 25 Nov 2015 1:04 p.m., "Jothirnadh Sai" <jothirnadh at gmail.com>
>>>>>> wrote:
>>>>>>
>>>>>>> Dear OSM community,
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> My name is Jothirnadh
>>>>>>> <https://www.openstreetmap.org/user/Jothirnadh> and I recently
>>>>>>> entered the OSM community as a crowd mapper. I found that there are many
>>>>>>> unmapped towns and villages in India and on the process of finding ways to
>>>>>>> add them I wrote a OSM diary post
>>>>>>> <https://www.openstreetmap.org/user/Jothirnadh/diary/36793> on
>>>>>>> explaining the ways to improve the data. It would be great to have more
>>>>>>> eyes on it and feedback from the OSM community on improvement of the
>>>>>>> missing towns and villages data on OSM.
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> With Regards,
>>>>>>> JOTHIRNADH
>>>>>>> Open Data Analyst
>>>>>>> Mapbox, India
>>>>>>> Phn No.: +919490712829
>>>>>>>
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>>>>> --
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