[OSM-talk] [Fwd: Re: [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]]]]

[Jean-Guilhem Cailton]

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Sujet : 	Re: [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]]]
Date : 	Thu, 28 Jan 2010 13:01:30 +0100

	
Pour : 	Emilie Laffray <emilie.laffray at gmail.com>
Copie à : 	Ed Loach <ed at loach.me.uk>, Jean-Guilhem Cailton 
<jgc at arkemie.com>, Talk-ht at openstreetmap.org, OSM-talk 
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Emilie Laffray a écrit :
>
>
> On 28 January 2010 11:27, Ed Loach <ed at loach.me.uk 
> <mailto:ed at loach.me.uk>> wrote:
>
>     JGC:
>
>     > Could anyone explain where the "Guibert" closest to
>     > Kenscoff (that I also put on ose.petschge.de
>     <http://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
>     <http://geonames.org> place
>     details (CC-BY) to OSM?
>
>
> geonames.org <http://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
Thanks Emilie.

I copied your comment to the "Guibert" point in OSM-Emergencies 
(http://ose.petschge.de)

Jean-Guilhem

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