[Tilesathome] Maplint change request

[Dermot McNally]

On 01/10/2007, Jason Reid <osm at bowvalleytechnologies.com> wrote:

> 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).

My script? Great. Did you have to do much with it (I imagine the
bilingual name stuff and county support had to go)?

> 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.

Thinking about this, we should probably kick off a GNS page outlining
what the GNS data source is and outlining its characteristics - we
could then have sections to describe the country-specific imports and
the local issues to be considered.

Such a page would be a useful read for anyone looking to use the data
for their own area.

All of this is OT for this list, though :-)

Dermot