Reinier,
for your curiosity, Michael Heißmeier has used GNS datato convert to OSM and I
wrongly stated Geonames.
Pierre
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> De : Reinier Battenberg <[email protected]>
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>Envoyé le : Samedi 26 janvier 2013 3h49
>Objet : Re: [HOT] Mali
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>
>Hi,
>
>Out of curiousity, the wiki clearly states geonames data is not to be imported
>into OSM. http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Geonames
>
>Is that ban lifted? (in which case: cool, we have a lot of work to do, too)
>
>Or should i read: get the lat+lon from the Bing imagery, and the name from
>Geonames, all manually? (as the geonames source of the lat+lon is google
>satelite imagery, but the name comes from XXX?)
>
>rgds,
>
>Reinier
>
>On Friday 25 January 2013 13:16:17 Pierre Béland wrote:
>
>Norman,
>
>
>The data provides for various sources with no clear license. To import names,
>we can use data from Geonames. Michael have converted this data to osm format
>for Mali. To import this data, one should import manually comparing with
>populated places on Bing imagery and correct the geolocation. If you are
>intererested to import the data, Michael can give you access to his file.
>
>Pierre
>
>
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>Can we use the names of this map - i mean can somebody ask this
>http://reliefweb.int/sites/reliefweb.int/files/resources/Logcluster_MRT_005_A3L_20121122.pdf
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