Re: [OSM-talk] RFC: Import of OpenGeoDB to OSM

2008-01-14 Thread SteveC
On 12 Jan 2008, at 19:23, Frederik Ramm wrote: responds to a question by Joerg Ostertag (who would have thought of that!) ?? have fun, SteveC | [EMAIL PROTECTED] | http://www.asklater.com/steve/ ___ talk mailing list talk@openstreetmap.org

Re: [OSM-talk] RFC: Import of OpenGeoDB to OSM

2008-01-13 Thread Martijn van Oosterhout
On Jan 13, 2008 8:31 AM, Martin Trautmann [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: When you import everything, you will have lots of duplicate places. What would be instructive is: - Convert the source to OSM and - Use osmxapi to extract what's already there Load both into JOSM and see exactly how much is

Re: [OSM-talk] RFC: Import of OpenGeoDB to OSM

2008-01-12 Thread Frederik Ramm
Hi, I was going to ask the same thing... googling pops up a german wikipedia link... Frederik mind helping? The matter had been discussed on talk-de; they call themselves a free database and have their data listed as Public Domain on Sourceforge so at least from their point of view

Re: [OSM-talk] RFC: Import of OpenGeoDB to OSM

2008-01-12 Thread Martin Trautmann
Frederik Ramm wrote: As to where their data comes from - we don't really know Most of it was based on NIMA data, with 1/10 minute precision Much data has been added since. I don't know how this data should be added best. When you import everything, you will have lots of duplicate places.