We did a GNS import of place names in Ireland at at time when very few
place names were already mapped and the map was full of emptiness. It
worked well for us, since the de-duplication task wasn't that bad and
it created reference points for future mapping. It is certainly true
that accuracy is
Hi all,
I recently discovered the site available by the US Army with millions of
world geonames (towns, etc) here
[1] http://earth-info.nga.mil/gns/html/namefiles.htm
The OSM wiki says that there is no legal problem using it, altought we
should put the source tag
[2]
Hi,
There's a csv2osm script (in svn I think) which will handle the
conversion and upload, but you'll want to stop it from uploading
automatically to check first. The only place I have looked at using
this data source is for Turkey, and it didn't seem too accurate - many
places were quite some
On Thu, Feb 19, 2009 at 10:13 PM, Ivan Garcia capisc...@gmail.com wrote:
Hi all,
I recently discovered the site available by the US Army with millions of
world geonames (towns, etc) here
[1] http://earth-info.nga.mil/gns/html/namefiles.htm
The OSM wiki says that there is no legal problem
Check out Mike Collinson's script
http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/User:Ewmjc#Miscellaneous_Offerings
In the Philippines, we are doing incremental import (first town names,
then islands, then mountain peaks, etc).
This way, we can edit the data in manageable chunks. There are a lot
of errors
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