[Tilesathome] Maplint change request

[Jason Reid]

Dermot McNally wrote:
> On 30/09/2007, D Tucny <d at tucny.com> wrote:
>
>   
>> Out of interest, what places were imported? Is there some documentation of
>> what was used?
>>     
>
> Quick answer: most of them :p
>
> More helpfully, I imported everything in the data file for Ireland
> (Republic) that was a "place" as opposed to any other kind of
> landmark. If you pick a random part of Ireland and download a section
> of map you're sure to encounter some of what was imported - look out
> for gns:* attributes.
>
> Documentation is scarce, beyond my posts on talk and talk-ie (should
> be archived) and my actual perl code as referenced from the list
> posts. It could probably do with a Wiki page, since I'd imagine the
> GNS information (inaccurate as it is) might be useful to the mapping
> efforts in other countries too.
>
> I must get something on the record about this (if only to avoid people
> deleting the gns: attributes whose purpose mightn't be immediately
> obvious).
I've also used the perl script to import the vast majority of the 'place' nodes for towns/villages/cities in Western Canada (for the 4 western-most provinces there were around 2000 of them, IIRC, before I started removing any that previously existed). 

A wiki-page may be an idea, especially since there appeared to be a fair bit of other data that may be of interest in the data files that the current script doesn't extract.

-Jason Reid