[OSM-talk] [Fwd: RE: [Fwd: [Fwd: [URGENT] person trapped in a rubble + 350 people starving in Guibert off of Kenscoff 67. From :Re: [CrisisMappers] KML of food/water alerts from SMS's]]]

[Emilie Laffray]

On 28 January 2010 11:27, Ed Loach <ed at loach.me.uk> wrote:

> JGC:
>
> > Could anyone explain where the "Guibert" closest to
> > Kenscoff (that I also put on ose.petschge.de) comes
> > from in OSM map ? I can't find an object corresponding
> > to it, nor its source.
>
> If you mean the one returned in the namefinder in the Geonames
> section, it isn't in OSM, but is in Geonames.
> http://www.geonames.org/3724061/guibert.html
>
> The Haiti 1:50k maps surround that point by Obléon, Grand Place and
> Carrefour Beraque and I think Grand Place is the one most likely to
> refer to Guibert, though of the three is the only one of those three
> not currently added from the 1:50k maps (Haiti-tlm-50)
>
> Perhaps someone else can say whether we can add geonames.org place
> details (CC-BY) to OSM?
>

geonames.org is not necessarily a good source of data. Most points come from
the US government in the first place:
http://earth-info.nga.mil/gns/html/index.html . I thought it was previously
evaluated as not good enough for OSM.

Emilie Laffray
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