On Wed, 18 Jun 2008 08:25:24 +0100 "Andy Robinson \(blackadder-lists\)" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Simon Wood wrote: > >Sent: 18 June 2008 7:31 AM > >To: [email protected] > >Subject: [OSM-talk] Importing from Geonames.org > > > >There's a comment on the wiki that Geonames.org may be tainted data.... is > >this true or false? Tainted in what way? Are there copyright issues? > > > >There are 256 towns/villages/hamlets missing from Alberta (as compaired to > >the official lists). Geonames appears to have lat/long for a fair > >proportion of these. If the geoname data is OK, I will set about importing > >these/generating nodes for them. [...] The other problem that I have noticed with the geonames database is that the latitude, longitude for places in Delhi, India, are wrong. This is apparently a known issue, and we will try to contribute fixed positions back to geonames. Regards, Gora _______________________________________________ talk mailing list [email protected] http://lists.openstreetmap.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/talk
