[OSM-talk] Import geonames data for make POI

[Bruno Adele]

Hello,

I have a new user of OSM site and my name is Bruno Adele and i'm french (sorry 
for my bad english), and i'm a webmaster of website 
http://www.jesuislibre.org, this site refere all free application 
(opensource, GPL etc) in french language.

I have make a awk script for convert the data imported from   
http://download.geonames.org/export/dump/ ("Creative Commons Attribution 2.5" 
licence ) to GPX files.

And can't upload data into OSM because only waypoints.

in geonames site, they are (country, state, region,stream, 
lake,airport,parks,area,city, village,road, railroad,spot, building, 
farm,mountain,hill,rock) more infos http://www.geonames.org/export/codes.html

I think, if OSM would like success they are make multiple layer with POI 
infos.

For news beginner user(contributor), it is easier  to make waypoints (POI) 
then make a gps traces.

For news beginner user(user), it is easier use POI then use partial (unusable) 
trace.

BA
 

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