2009/1/21 22:53 Russ Nelson::
Don't
sweat the small stuff like villages and hamlets. Make the map better,
and as you do, sooner or later, somebody who came from that village
will want it on the map, and will correct it.
However for many regions of Russia even small towns does matter. If
they
2009/1/22 6:47 D Tucny wrote:
GNS however is a valid source...
http://earth-info.nga.mil/gns/html/index.html
Thank you. This datasource will be useful anyway. I've accidentally
missed it on Potential Datasources page.
I'm just looking at mapping the correct feature types and looking at the
2009/1/21 20:01 Russ Nelson wrote:
Surely there is a population database for towns in Russia.
Of course there it is easy to find databases for bigger cities. Full
list of Russian cities with population more than 100 000 is already in
OSM wiki. Things are more difficult with small towns and
2009/1/21 20:48 Hakan Tandogan wrote:
Maybe you could do a comparision to geonames.org, and add only places that
have a similiar spelling in their russian name?
Geonames is rejected datasource for OSM according to wiki. So I'm not
sure that it is good idea to use their data for import.
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