On Tue, April 8, 2008 13:07, Nick Black wrote: > On Tue, Apr 8, 2008 at 1:31 PM, Sebastian Spaeth <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > wrote: > >> Hakan Tandogan wrote: >> >>> I am an self-employed Computer Scientist with lots of experience in >>> databases and web applications. I live and work in Germany. >> >> Hi Hakan (I can probably talk in German with you :-)) >> >> >> thanks for volunteering, I have accepted you as a mentor. You can now >> click on any proposal you like and say that you are willing to mentor a >> proposal (such as the geonames one). I can't enter info like this >> myself. Google seems rather strict with this. >> >> Honestly, I was wondering about the Geonames project application. I am >> not sure (from a license point of view) that we can import Geonames data, >> as they also require attribution. > > And because they derive from Google Maps, more importantly.
They derive *some* data from GM. Not all of it. There is interesting information like elevation and population of places, "is_in" information (geotree) or alternate names in local languages that are not derived from GM (last time I looked, GM had no Japanese, Russian or Hebrew spellings of the name "Antalya"). We might synchronize those bits of data, or just add a link to the geonames webservice so that one doesn't determine the information that OSM node 36243693 corresponds to geonames place 323777 over and over again. Regards, Hakan -- The key to immortality is first living a life worth remembering... _______________________________________________ dev mailing list [email protected] http://lists.openstreetmap.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/dev
