[OSM-talk] Import geonames data for make POI

[Bruno Adele]

Le Mardi 23 Mai 2006 14:42, Mikel Maron a écrit :
> Hi Bruno
>
> Welcome to OSM!
>
> Geonames is a great project, and quite complementary to OSM. Geonames API
> is used by the city search at
> http://www.openstreetmap.org/search.html?action=citysearch
>
> Since Geonames itself has a wiki-like editing interface for the POI it
> aggregates, I would not suggest to simply dump an export into OSM. For one
> thing, this would throw out Geonames identifiers, and future updates from
> Geonames would not be reconcilable with these Geonames POI stored in OSM.
> Another issue is that since we are already using their API for Search, if
> OSM were to have a copy of the Geonames database it makes sense to utilize
> that local copy for Search. These both suggest a deeper integration of
> Geonames and OSM than a one time database export/import.

Ok, you are reason.

In this case, it is necessary that intégrale in live(API)  the infos of 
geonames in exports GPX to be use with JOSM.

That must be transparent .

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