[OSM-talk] Importing from Geonames.org

[Simon Wood]

There's a comment on the wiki that Geonames.org may be tainted data.... is this true or false?

There are 256 towns/villages/hamlets missing from Alberta (as compaired to the official lists). Geonames appears to have lat/long for a fair proportion of these. If the geoname data is OK, I will set about importing these/generating nodes for them.

Cheers,
Mungewell.

PS. They also have a lot of mountain peaks, we only have 5 in the Canadian Rockies :-(