2009/1/22 Upliner Mikhalych <upli...@gmail.com> > 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. >
GNS however is a valid source... http://earth-info.nga.mil/gns/html/index.html The country file for russia is 28MB zipped (83MB unzipped) with 547909 records... It's supposed to include a PC field for importance level, but, it doesn't seem to be populated in the Russia data, also, supposed to include population, but, that's also missing... I modified my GNS extract script to interpret the data and merge the russian cyrillic and local latin names into a single record... about 99% of records have a latin format name, about 50% have cyrillic (judged by eye)... I'm just looking at mapping the correct feature types and looking at the possibility of matching administrative records to populated place records in an attempt to calculate place size... e.g. Place with no indication of type of place 4 -3003991 6879674 56.851944 41.362222 565107 412144 37VFD4405303392 NO37-12 P PPL RS 21 NS rus ШУЯ Шуя Шуя 2007-02-12 4 -3003991 -4209549 56.851944 41.362222 565107 412144 37VFD4405303392 NO37-12 P PPL RS 21 NSHUYA Shuya Shuya 2007-02-12 and Admin level 2 object mentioning it's a city... 4 210856 263607 56.85 41.366667 565100 412200 37VFD4433103185 NO37-12 A ADM2 RS 21 N Gorod GORODSHUYA Gorod Shuya Gorod Shuya 2007-02-12 4 210856 6678714 56.85 41.366667 565100 412200 37VFD4433103185 NO37-12 A ADM2 RS 21 NS rus Город ГОРОДШУЯ Город Шуя Город Шуя 2007-02-12 4 210856 6877547 56.85 41.366667 565100 412200 37VFD4433103185 NO37-12 A ADM2 RS 21 NS rus Город ГОРОДШУЯ Город Шуя Город Шуя 2007-02-12 Perhaps it might be best to just use the ADM objects rather than the PPL objects, but, you can't get smaller places then and the ADM objects tend to be placed further from the center of a place than the PPL objects... d
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