I spend quite some time working on central asia republics - especially
the Fergana Valley (http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Wiki_Project_Fergana_Valley
) which is in Uzbekistan, with parts of Tajikstan and Kyrgystan. I
could not find any really reliable source - most places have at least
2 names, if not 4 or 5 - Russian name, cyrillic script, local language
in local script, local languge in cyrillic, local language in latin
script, other local language in relevant script, English name, french
name, german name alternative english name... etc etc. Searching
databases, newspaper articles etc can be frustrating when several
places have similar/same names. Geonames map interface has many of the
villages in the wrong place anyway, so not very useful. FallingRain is
one souce that has pulled together alternative names and presented
with a map, but I am not sure which database they have used, possibly
vmap0, and of course they have plenty of mistakes too, and do not use
cyrillic (http://www.fallingrain.com/world/UZ/3/Yangiqorgon.html).
For the roads, from documents I could read, there is no established
local classification in Uzbekistan, I hope that Russia is better
organised!
Not much help, but good luck!
James
Hello all,
I want to import populated place names from vmap0 for some regions
of Russia.
There are many blank areas in Russia without any data, so vmap0 data,
especially place names can be a quite good basis for these regions
(road network is better to trace using satellite imagery).
Dr James Stewart
Research centre for Social Sciences
Institute for the Study of Science, Technology and Innovation
University of Edinburgh
http://www.issti.ed.ac.uk
http://homepages.ed.ac.uk/jkstew
_______________________________________________
talk mailing list
talk@openstreetmap.org
http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk
