[Talk-in] Adding missing towns and villages to OSM
Yogesh योगि
yogesh at karnatakaeducation.org.in
Thu Nov 26 12:19:36 UTC 2015
The WikiMiniAtlas does provide the map with an overlay of all language
geocoded articles from Wikipedia[1], but the basemap is without any
labels[2] as they're provided through json overlays[3][4].
[1]https://wma.wmflabs.org/
[2]https://wma.wmflabs.org/tiles/mapnik/12/5263/tile_5263_5295.png
[3]https://wma.wmflabs.org/label.php?l=en&a=14061&b=10593&z=13&g=Earth
[4]https://wma.wmflabs.org/tiles/jsontile.php?x=10592&y=10515&z=13
On 11/26/2015 04:42 PM, Arun Ganesh wrote:
> 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
> <mailto: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 too outdated.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 <tel:%2B919490712829>
>
> On Thu, Nov 26, 2015 at 12:50 AM, Justin Meyers
> <justinelliotmeyers at gmail.com
> <mailto: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 <mailto:ichattopadhyaya at gmail.com>>
> wrote:
>
> Hi Jothirnadh,
> Can you please point us to the license info of the nga.mil
> <http://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 <http://geonames.org> data is
> not of suitable license (others can correct me if I'm
> wrong). Is the data at the nga.mil <http://nga.mil> map
> layer based on geonames.org <http://geonames.org>?
> Regards,
> Ishan
>
> On Wed, Nov 25, 2015 at 4:50 PM, Aneesh T
> <doc.aneesh at gmail.com <mailto: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
> <mailto: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
> <mailto: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
> <mailto: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 <tel:%2B919490712829>
>
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