[OSM-talk] geonames considered harmful

[Mikel Maron]

Is that really necessary? I'm well aware that we want to remove any appearance of using licensed data. But in this case, the geonames data is not directly used in creating any OSM data, only as an aid to find cities.

Perhaps we can get in touch with Marc at geonames, and see if its possible to query an "untainted" version of the geonames data.

Other option is to utilize the worldKit geocoder again. That's fine, but it requires that the country be selected, rather than entered freely, and its not very good at all with spelling variations.

----- Original Message ----
From: SteveC <steve at asklater.com>
To: talk at openstreetmap.org
Sent: Monday, August 21, 2006 12:03:51 PM
Subject: [OSM-talk] geonames considered harmful

Being some kind of total prat, I only just found out (thanks NickB) that
geonames allows you to update location data off of google data.

Sigh.

Expecte geonames search support to die very soon.

have fun,

SteveC steve at asklater.com http://www.asklater.com/steve/

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