[OSM-talk] bulk loading towns/cities locations
Brent Easton
b.easton at exemail.com.au
Sun Nov 4 06:47:18 GMT 2007
Hi Paul,
There are thousands of towns not loaded in Australia!
The good news is that there is a free set of data available from the Geographical Names Board that specifies every named location in Australia and specifies a Lat and Lon.
The bad news is that the data is only recorded to the nearest minute (from memory) which means that each name can be up to about 1.8km from it actual location, and all location with 1.8km of another end up in the same place.
We can load this data up fairly easily. There is a script that was used to load the equivalent data from Ireland.
The question is how useful this is, given the (in)accuracy of the data. It depends on what the Australian Community think.
I can see some advantage to this (if the existing names in Australia where removed before the upload) to give a rough location of towns, but have always been hesitant because of the innacuracy. It also includes locations for all suburbs in cities, and these will just end up piled on top of each other .
Regards,
Brent.
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On 4/11/2007 at 4:23 PM Paul wrote:
>Is there a feature to bulk load the location of towns/villages/cities
>etc..? ie just the marker for its location (not the ways)
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>I found that there maybe several towns not loaded into OSM for Australia
>, so would it be easier to load these placemakers into the system in Bulk?
>
>Paul
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Brent Easton
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