[OSM-talk] RFC: Import of OpenGeoDB to OSM

[Stephen Coast]

On 12 Jan 2008, at 18:43, J.D. Schmidt wrote:

> Sven Anders skrev:
>> The OpenGeoDB Project has data about (many places of
>> *Germany,
>> *Belgium,
>> *Liechtenstein,
>> * Austria and
>> *Switzerland.
>>
>> There are 45873 places in this database.
>>
>>
>> You can find there data of:
>> * postal codes
>> * license plate codes
>> * community identification numbers
>> and some more.
>>
>> I have writen a small tool, which can import all of the data to OSM.
>> I would like to start the import in one week, if there is no veto.
>>
>> More Informatione about the import you can find one the Wiki-Page:
>>
>> http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/index.php/User:OpenGeoDB
>>
>> I`m not a native English speaker, so please correct the field names  
>> and  give
>> comments to the Wiki Page
>>
>>
>> Thank you
>>
>> Sven Anders
>>
>
> You have ofcourse checked that whatever license used for the data in  
> the
> OpenGeoDB doesn't taint the OSM license in any way ?

I was going to ask the same thing... googling pops up a german  
wikipedia link...  Frederik mind helping?

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have fun,

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