Gora Mohanty wrote: >Sent: 18 June 2008 8:40 AM >To: [email protected] >Subject: Re: [OSM-talk] Importing from Geonames.org > >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?
See http://www.geonames.org/data-sources.html Geonames aggregates data from other sources and you will see in the list even organisations like the Ordnance Survey listed. Thus it is not possible to say whether data is or is not subject to copyright. As a source geonames is best avoided. Better to go back to the original sources that they use and try and establish if the bit of data you are looking for is available freely or not. Cheers Andy _______________________________________________ talk mailing list [email protected] http://lists.openstreetmap.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/talk
