[OSM-talk] geonames considered harmful

[SteveC]

* @ 21/08/06 05:33:59 PM mikel_maron at yahoo.com wrote:
> 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.

Conceivably it could be used.

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

This, or replicating the project with landsat, or using spacially tagged
nodes in OSM are all alternatives.

have fun,

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