[Openstreetmap] GEOnet Names Server

[Erik Johansson erjohan@kth.se]

2005/9/3, Frank Mohr <f_mohr at yahoo.de>:
> Jon Stockill wrote:
> > Having said all that, it's a lot of data, it appears to be available
> > under sane terms, and weeding out the small inaccuracies will likely
> > require far less work than building such a database from scratch.

Someone on this list said that the problem with the free GEO data from
the US government, is that you get a very US centric view by using
their data, living in a non english speaking that might show abit
more. This means I wouldn't want to use this data for labling places
on a map.

It's very usefull to have for searching for places in the search
field, and for autocompletion as in google suggests.


> what about the gns_data data sets
> http://earth-info.nga.mil/gns/html/cntry_files.html
> ftp://ftp.nga.mil/pub/gns_data
> 
> > --- CUT from http://earth-info.nga.mil/gns/html/index.html --- <
(...)

I think that is what he meant, it's on the Wiki page, It's a good
thing to try to collect this info on the Wiki, so we don't have to
look over this again and again..

http://www.openstreetmap.org/wiki/index.php/To_Look_At