As far as I can tell, this data isn't available under a free and open license, so unless there is documentation somewhere to suggest otherwise, it shouldn't have been imported to begin with and certainly shouldn't be added again.
On 7 April 2016 at 11:30, Andrew Davidson <[email protected]> wrote: > There was an import of NSW places from the GNB database done back in 2008 > with a helpful wiki page ;-) > > http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/NSW_Geographic_Names_Import > > I'm proposing to review these to see what's changed in the last 8 years > but I've run into a number of problems: > > 1. It would seem that the original import was not complete > 2. The nswgnb tags have not survived well > 3. The GNB has "helpfully" created entries for the address localities but > these seem to have taken on the reference numbers for the original > town/village/city. They've created new entries for the original entity but > this means that the town/village/city now has a different reference number. > 4. Sometimes the locality entry has the same location but at other times > it can be separated by up to 5km. > > Initially I thought that the multiple GNB references could be entered with > multiple values like this: > > http://www.openstreetmap.org/node/3118349777 > > but this doesn't naturally tell you how the place:nswgnb and ref:nswgnb > line up and it doesn't lend itself to adding the alt_names that are in the > database. As an alternative I'd like to use this scheme*: > > http://www.openstreetmap.org/node/113135446 > > which requires swapping the namespace prefix around to make nswgnb the > namespace. I think this makes it clearer how the GNB categories line up and > can be extended for more names (There is at least one place in NSW with > three different variant names). > > I'm also proposing to put the LOCALITY or SUBURB entry at the same place > as the corresponding TOWN/VILLAGE/CITY etc entry (provided that it still > falls inside the admin_level 10 boundary). > > Any views on these ideas? I think the most important thing is will this be > useful for the next person who looks at this in 5 to 10 years from now? > > > *Unusually the admin_level 10 boundary for this area is called Lake > Tabourie and has a separate GNB entry: > > http://www.openstreetmap.org/node/4103653600 > > > > > > > _______________________________________________ > Talk-au mailing list > [email protected] > https://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk-au >
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