[OSM-talk] NGA Country Files Converter into OSM format

[Ivan Garcia]

Hi all,

I recently discovered the site available by the US Army with millions of
world geonames (towns, etc) here
[1] http://earth-info.nga.mil/gns/html/namefiles.htm

The OSM wiki says that there is no legal problem using it, altought we
should put the source tag
[2] http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/SWDB#GEOnet_Names_Server

Here is the XML explanations of the CVS that you can download from the link
[1],
[3]
http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Mass_content_adding/Geographic_data/Using_NGA_data/Localization/Description_of_Names_Files_for_Countries_and_Territories_Format/English

The question is ? Anybody has developed a script to convert this CVS into a
KML or OSM file containing all the towns of a country?
This can be very useful for countries in developing countries almost empty.

Best Regards.
Ivan
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