[Openstreetmap] GEOnet Names Server

[Frank Mohr]

Erik Johansson erjohan at kth.se wrote:
> 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.

the problem is just that you don't have much choice of free geodata

to label places, i'd also prefer the names to be entered with the OSM
data (thats why i added the City and CountryCode keys to the OSM keys)

> 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

i didn't see that wiki page before i answered the mail
(and i was wondering whats meant by the "to look at" page)

frank

	

	
		
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